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This refers to the Google buses using the bus stops which are usually reserved to the Muni buses only.

by jeduan 13y ago

fatjokes 13y ago
I see your point but it has to be more than that. These protestors must see that it's better to share these stops than to have extra cars on the street, or more crowding on the already shitty public transit.
- lotso 13y ago
  The sentiment is that they are taking away housing options from people who have lived in SF for years and not only contributing to the gentrification of the community, but not even giving back or participating in it as well.
  - hnriot 13y ago
    And those people that complain are probably google users. I say fuck em! Google owes SF nothing, people live there by their own choosing, not because of anything google did, but just that SF is a great place to live (no polar vortex for one!) As for Oakland, I can only imagine that the injection of wealth by google employes spending some of their income in the east bay would be a good thing, it sure needs it.
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  - yetanotherphd 13y ago
    That comes back to the idea that people have the right to live where they like. People who oppose gentrification believe that the government (or the "community") should try to influence who lives where. While it's absolutely true that people impose externalities on one another, this doesn't give the government carte-blanche to determine how people live their lives, or who should live where. In the case of SF, the reasons range from the plausible (people of differing income levels living together contributes to the overall wellbeing of the city) to the discriminatory (artists are more valuable to the city's social life than tech works) to the downright nasty (tech nerds are bratty privileged rich kids)
- azakai 13y ago
  In previous stories it was mentioned that the private bus would in some cases stop at the public stop and prevent regular public transit buses from using it for some period of time, forcing people to board the public bus not at the proper position and so forth. Sharing a system of public bus stations requires some coordination, which it seems is just starting now.
theorique 13y ago
Recent reports suggest that Google is cutting a deal with the city to pay for usage of bus stops. Is that accurate?

This refers to the Google buses using the bus stops which are usually reserved to the Muni buses only.

by jeduan 13y ago

This refers to the Google buses using the bus stops which are usually reserved to the Muni buses only.

I see your point but it has to be more than that. These protestors must see that it's better to share these stops than to have extra cars on the street, or more crowding on the already shitty public transit.

lotso 13y ago
The sentiment is that they are taking away housing options from people who have lived in SF for years and not only contributing to the gentrification of the community, but not even giving back or participating in it as well.
- hnriot 13y ago
  And those people that complain are probably google users. I say fuck em! Google owes SF nothing, people live there by their own choosing, not because of anything google did, but just that SF is a great place to live (no polar vortex for one!) As for Oakland, I can only imagine that the injection of wealth by google employes spending some of their income in the east bay would be a good thing, it sure needs it.
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- yetanotherphd 13y ago
  That comes back to the idea that people have the right to live where they like. People who oppose gentrification believe that the government (or the "community") should try to influence who lives where. While it's absolutely true that people impose externalities on one another, this doesn't give the government carte-blanche to determine how people live their lives, or who should live where. In the case of SF, the reasons range from the plausible (people of differing income levels living together contributes to the overall wellbeing of the city) to the discriminatory (artists are more valuable to the city's social life than tech works) to the downright nasty (tech nerds are bratty privileged rich kids)
azakai 13y ago
In previous stories it was mentioned that the private bus would in some cases stop at the public stop and prevent regular public transit buses from using it for some period of time, forcing people to board the public bus not at the proper position and so forth. Sharing a system of public bus stations requires some coordination, which it seems is just starting now.

theorique 13y ago

Recent reports suggest that Google is cutting a deal with the city to pay for usage of bus stops. Is that accurate?