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04-02-2014, 11:01 AM
Google Bus Saga Continues: Supervisors Uphold Plan To Charge Buses
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to uphold a proposed pilot program (http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/tech-shuttling-employees/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) that will charge commuter tech buses a small fee for using public bus stops to pickup and drop-off employees in San Francisco.
City supervisors voted 8-2 to continue plans for the program despite an appeal for an Environmental Impact Report (http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/ceqa/intrnlproced/eir.html) to determine the effects the shuttle program may have on the local environment. Supporters of the program claim it will lead to fewer drivers on the road, and a full scale EIR isn't necessary since the program is a pilot intended for evaluation purposes, **t a permanent program. Opponents of the shuttle program claim that forgoing an EIR is illegal Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/02/google-bus-saga-continues/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to uphold a proposed pilot program (http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/tech-shuttling-employees/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) that will charge commuter tech buses a small fee for using public bus stops to pickup and drop-off employees in San Francisco.
City supervisors voted 8-2 to continue plans for the program despite an appeal for an Environmental Impact Report (http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/ceqa/intrnlproced/eir.html) to determine the effects the shuttle program may have on the local environment. Supporters of the program claim it will lead to fewer drivers on the road, and a full scale EIR isn't necessary since the program is a pilot intended for evaluation purposes, **t a permanent program. Opponents of the shuttle program claim that forgoing an EIR is illegal Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/02/google-bus-saga-continues/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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