Transportation
Are Silicon Valley's Employee Shuttles Bad for San Francisco?
The city's parallel transportation network, invented by companies like Facebook, Google and Apple, could be creating unforeseen consequences.
Buses in this country have a bad rap. You can debate the nature and origin of the bus stigma, and many have, including on this site. But the bottom line is that in most parts of the country, the motor coach and its riders are not usually found at the top of the socioeconomic heap.
In the Bay Area, though, thanks to a fleet of private vehicles ferrying employees from the desirable urban neighborhoods of San Francisco to the suburban campuses of Silicon Valley, the humble bus has attained a rarefied and even mysterious status, according to a great piece from PRI’s Marketplace show. Queena Kim reports: