Before the buses became a symbol for San Francisco’s gentrification woes, they were just a fleet of several hundred private coaches that whisked some seventeen thousand workers around San Francisco and to and from the Silicon Valley campuses of such companies as Apple, Google, and Genentech. [...]
San Francisco is deep into a second tech boom—and, with it, many less affluent workers are getting priced out of the city.
— newyorker.com
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People are also pissed that the rich tech giants aren't putting any money into the public infrastructure, instead choosing to bypass it completely with fleets of private luxury transportation. Imagine the difference if they finanaced the extension of BART to San Jose.
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