It's simple: Bulldoze Mountain View and de-suburbify it. That, or move the graves out of Colma and turn it into a second Hong Kong, because we don't have many options.<p>People want to live in the temperate area of the bay. Younger people, in general, aren't interested in the suburbs anymore, and that leaves SF and Oakland.
This talk of "Google taking from the city without giving anything back" seems bizarre to me. What is Google taking? People are free to live where ever they want, and it's not Google's fault.<p>And how about all the economic activity that these people bring to the city?
Why do people think this has anything to do with the bus protests? Can't Google be trying to find a more efficient way to get their employees to work ergo getting more labor out of their salaried employees?<p><code> We certainly don’t want to cause any inconvenience to SF residents, and we’re trying alternative ways to get Googlers to work,” </code>
I can generally empathize with most movements, even if I disagree -- one can take a look at the goal and see the reason, no matter how misguided. This is not one of those times. I sincerely don't get how Google/Tech are the targets of hate. I can understand people upset over them using muni stops, but breaking windows of busses in west Oakland, and getting mad at ferries?<p>Can someone explain this to me? Why is the anger directed at tech?
I think the ferry idea is interesting, because the Bay is totally underutilized. I used to live in the Mission and work in Oakland, and I'd just bike to the ferry terminal. Aside from being a relaxing way to spend your morning commute, you have an alternate to BART or driving. Why shouldn't Peninsula and South Bay communities have the same access to ferries?
Maybe they could just write a check to electrify the caltrain a few years faster: <a href="http://sonic.net/~mly/Caltrain-Electrification/electrification-qa.html" rel="nofollow">http://sonic.net/~mly/Caltrain-Electrification/electrificati...</a> . I never got why it has taken CA so long to make this happne.