It's difficult to comprehend how a bus has turned into a symbol of oppression, although I guess there is a history of that being the case in this country. In t

It's difficult to comprehend how a bus has turned into a symbol of oppression, although I guess there is a history of that being the case in this country. In this particular instance, though, I'm sure people would be equally unhappy with the resulting traffic and gridlock if all of the bus riders started driving their cars instead. The difference is that there wouldn't be a big object which says "Bauers" on the side of it which people could use as the poster child for income inequality. The sad truth is that Google, Facebook, et al. wouldn't easily be able to navigate the byzantine system of transit organizations that comprise the Bay Area. For Google, that would mean dealing with Muni, SamTrans and VTA and maybe Caltrain and the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. That's a pretty difficult tangle of bureaucracy to deal with. It's easier to just provide your own private transit company. One thing they could do which would go a long way to allaying the vitriol would be to allow non-employees to make use of the bus. That would further decrease traffic and would make it seem like the service was more equitable. The problem of course is that we live in a litigious society and there may be problems with insurance or other factors.