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"Facebook, Google, Apple and other companies lay on shiny luxury buses to ferry their employees on the approximately 90-minute trip. San Francisco's Municipal T
by skj 12y ago
"Facebook, Google, Apple and other companies lay on shiny luxury buses to ferry their employees on the approximately 90-minute trip. San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Authority estimates about 35,000 ride the air-conditioned, Wi-Fi-provisioned buses each day."
Facebook has only a couple thousand employees, and Google has maybe 15,000? in Mountainview, and certainly not that many who live in SF. Not sure about Apple. Are there more companies with shuttles, or is this number made up?
- quest88 12y agoLinkedIn, Yahoo, Genentech and EA also have buses. Other smaller companies also contract out Bauer's (http://www.bauersit.com/ http://www.bauersit.com/) to provide shuttle services as well. I'm not saying this adds up, but there are other companies participating.
- uiberto 12y agoCounting one employee riding twice per day may make the difference.
- clsec 12y agoConsidering the number of buses I see every day, I would agree. Companies like Genentech & Yahoo transport emplyees as well. It's also an SF MTA estimate and I'm pretty sure they have a good idea of the traffic & transit conditions in the City.
- mseebach 12y agoSince these busses are direct competitors, the MTA also has probably the strongest incentives of any actor to overstate the severity of the problem.
- Decade 12y agoSFMTA routes end at the borders of the city. They are not direct competitors to buses going down the peninsula. If anything, SFMTA lines are feeders, because the corporate buses don't wander all over the city.
- khuey 12y agoTech shuttles don't compete with the SFMTA in any way.
- clsec 12y agoNo, I disagree. The SF MTA only serves SF not the south bay. They also charge for use of the MUNI bus stops that these buses use.