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Yet the Bay area has a mediocre public transit system that does not provide convenient service to major employers like Facebook, Google, or Apple. Transit serv
by betterunix2 7y ago
Yet the Bay area has a mediocre public transit system that does not provide convenient service to major employers like Facebook, Google, or Apple. Transit service in the Bay Area is so bad that the major tech companies run private commuter buses to make up the gap. Somehow that has not stopped tech companies from building new offices around the Bay.
- Apocryphon 7y agoIn some ways, Bay Area transit and traffic woes may be a root cause for the invention of ridesharing.
- selimthegrim 7y agoSanta Barbara’s was
- redis_mlc 7y agoThat's the high-level version, but here's the detailed version. If you look at a VTA (local bus) map, it's oriented around the Lockheed campus (plus Yahoo, Marvell and Juniper.) That's because Lockheed told the VTA to do that. 25 years later, when Google approached the VTA, the VTA said no. Hence the private buses with wifi. Since Google is buying all of Mountain View's office space, they would really need to reroute the entire VTA now.