The tech buses were started because google was creating too many jobs with housing being too far away.
Google wanted to expand their campus. Mountain View was concerned about the added traffic on their roads, so they said no. Google then wanted to work with developers to create medium-density housing within walking/biking distance, but mountain view also said no to that ("would ruin the character of the neighborhood"). So the people filling the new jobs can't live nearby and they can't commute in.
Solution? Bus them in on tech shuttles. The thing that's a workaround to political dysfunction and NIMBY'ism is somehow a symbol of the tech industry excess.
Google wanted to expand their campus. Mountain View was concerned about the added traffic on their roads, so they said no. Google then wanted to work with developers to create medium-density housing within walking/biking distance, but mountain view also said no to that ("would ruin the character of the neighborhood"). So the people filling the new jobs can't live nearby and they can't commute in.
Solution? Bus them in on tech shuttles. The thing that's a workaround to political dysfunction and NIMBY'ism is somehow a symbol of the tech industry excess.