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Google Bus
The San Francisco tech bus protests, also known as the Google bus protests, were a series of protests in the San Francisco Bay Area beginning in late 2013, when the use of shuttle buses employed by local area Technology company, tech companies became widely publicized. The tech buses have been called "Google buses" although other companies—such as tech companies Apple Inc., Apple, Facebook, and Yahoo!, Yahoo, and biotechnology corporation Genentech—also pay for private shuttle services. The buses are used to transport employees from their homes in San Francisco and Oakland to corporate campuses in Silicon Valley, about south. Anti-tech bus protesters viewed the buses as symbols of Gentrification of San Francisco, gentrification and Development-induced displacement, displacement in a city where rapid growth in the tech sector and San Francisco housing crisis, insufficient new housing construction has led to increasing rent and housing prices. In reaction to the prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
