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Aside from the wishy-washy fairness argument, I can see a couple of actual critiques: 1) The busses displace the attention and money of a lot of motivated and
by cmsmith 13y ago
Aside from the wishy-washy fairness argument, I can see a couple of actual critiques:
1) The busses displace the attention and money of a lot of motivated and well-off tech workers who might otherwise demand improved public transit systems.
2) The busses artificially distort the housing market in SF. Previously the number of people who wanted to live in SF was limited by the number of jobs available in the city - now that number includes anyone with access to a shuttle. And the people with jobs in SF now can't afford to live where they work.
I think the fallacy here is that without the busses, you'd have 10,000 (or whatever the number) tech workers driving 1+ hours from North Beach to Mountain View in their own cars. In reality, most of those people would just move closer to where they work.