I should also note that the article there casts a negative eye on the private busses. This is one thing I can't understand. In WA, we have a state-wide commute

I should also note that the article there casts a negative eye on the private busses. This is one thing I can't understand. In WA, we have a state-wide commute trip reduction law that requires employers with more than 100 employees at a worksite to have a plan for cutting single occupant vehicle trips. Microsoft, another big suburban campus, has been a role model with respect to mitigating the transportation-related problems stemming from their big suburban campus. They subsidize and otherwise support transit and bicycle commuting to campus, in addition to maintaining their Connector bus service, which is analogous to the Google / Apple busses that the Bay Area seems to hate on so much. Here's the thing. Here in Washington we told companies that they needed to reduce commute trips. Microsoft's Connector fleet actually does that. I get that the private busses somehow are symbolic of the gentrification and techification of the Bay Area, but I view the private mass transit of their employees as a way in which the companies are helping to lessen impacts for others. The Bay Area certainly does have a housing affordability problem, and tech companies are certainly part of the root cause, but it baffles me that one positive thing they do becomes emblematic of the problem.