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> Really? He thinks that's the solution? And what? Have all those employees drive? Removing SF shuttle busses, while certainly unpleasant[1], is probably one o
by doktrin 13y ago
> Really? He thinks that's the solution? And what? Have all those employees drive?
Removing SF shuttle busses, while certainly unpleasant[1], is probably one of the few measures that would exert sufficient pressure on the local governments to improve public transit and actually tackle road congestion.
[1] I used to work in Menlo Park for not-Facebook, and at one point attempted the tri-fecta terri-commute of Bus + Caltrain + local shuttle. It really sucked.
- haldean 13y agoI'm currently doing the trifecta -- 101 has gotten so bad that it's actually faster than the Google bus for my evening commute.
- icambron 13y agoEr, so we should make transportation worse so that it will be better?
- doktrin 13y agoAnother way to view it would be to temporarily inconvenience a relatively privileged minority in order to benefit the region as a whole.
- saryant 13y agoTransportation policy in the Bay has been stuck in the mud for decades though, it didn't just happen recently and certainly not because some Google/Apple/Facebook workers started commuting from the city down the peninsula. Look at the Benicia Bridge debacle. Funding was approved by the voters in 1988, the new northbound span didn't open until 2007 and it was $1 billion over budget! I don't think inconveniencing some tech workers is going to have much effect on the politics in the region.