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I think LA and the Bay Area are going to eventually go the way of New York where you have huge buildings and residential and business well mixed. Right now the

I think LA and the Bay Area are going to eventually go the way of New York where you have huge buildings and residential and business well mixed. Right now the Bay is terrible because the jobs are all in SF, MV, SJ and fairly far from affordable housing. So most people do very long commutes adding in more traffic. I really shouldn't be working with so many people who commute 1-2 hours each way every day because they cannot afford to live any closer to their work.

floatrock 10y ago
The tech buses were started because google was creating too many jobs with housing being too far away. Google wanted to expand their campus. Mountain View was concerned about the added traffic on their roads, so they said no. Google then wanted to work with developers to create medium-density housing within walking/biking distance, but mountain view also said no to that ("would ruin the character of the neighborhood"). So the people filling the new jobs can't live nearby and they can't commute in. Solution? Bus them in on tech shuttles. The thing that's a workaround to political dysfunction and NIMBY'ism is somehow a symbol of the tech industry excess.