By KQED News Staff and Wires, KQED News Fix
Google played a lot of April Fools’ Day jokes Tuesday, but this was not one of them.
Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on stilts, handed out fake “Gmuni” passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city’s Mission District Tuesday morning. The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an increasingly unaffordable San Francisco.
The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing Tuesday afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.
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