Activists Take San Francisco to Court Over 'Google Buses'

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Activists Take San Francisco to Court Over 'Google Buses'
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San Francisco's Google Bus protesters are bringing their message from the streets to the courtroom

A group of activists filed a lawsuit (http://www.scribd.com/doc/221443647/Commuter-Shuttle-Petition) Thursday against the City of San Francisco in an attempt to halt a tech shuttle pilot program (http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/tech-shuttling-employees/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) that will allow Silicon Valley tech giants like Apple and Google to use public bus stops to pick up and drop off employees for a small fee

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The tech companies already utilize city bus stops as a way to transport employees around San Francisco and to company headquarters in the Valley, sometimes as far as 50 miles away. The 18-month pilot program was first approved by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority's Board of Directors in January as a response to public outrage over the tech shuttles. The pilot program was later upheld by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (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) last month Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/02/google-bus-lawsuit/?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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