S.F. Activists Sue City Over Tech Bus Plan

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Workers board a private bus at 24th and Valencia streets. Photo by Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix

The latest salvo in San Francisco’s continuing Google Bus War: A coalition of community and housing activists and a union representing public employees filed suit Thursday to stop San Francisco officials from going ahead with a pilot project to regulate private commuter buses.

The complaint, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, says the pilot project violates both the California Vehicle Code and state environmental law and seeks court orders to halt the program until it is brought into compliance.

The buses carry thousands of workers to high-tech campuses from San Francisco to Silicon Valley as well as to sites around the city. Over the past year, the shuttles have become the object of repeated protests as the booming tech economy draws workers to the Bay Area, a trend that, in turn, has played a part in rising rents and an increasing number of evictions.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

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