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Apple has free shuttles to pick people up. There are 4 large apartment buildings recently constructed near the new office. Most people don't work in Cupertino. Lastly, many people can telecommute if they want to.

Apple is not perfect, but the energy Tim puts in making this stuff happens is beyond marketing desire.

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Shuttles are just more congestion. Need sky trains.

Caltrain has been encouraging shuttles for decades; you're saying that they're wrong? OK, let's cut Caltrain ridership by about 1/3 by ending shuttles, that'll improve things.

Caltrain is sloooowwww, need high speed high density public transit that doesn’t add to rush hour congestion. Each stop should have a massive high rise with grocery, entertainment, etc.

You’ve just described Tokyo. Was that intentional?

That is the plan for Caltrain, yes. Ending shuttles is not the way to get there. Electrification of Caltrain and relaxing zoning restrictions near Caltrain stations, plus keeping shuttles, is the way to get there.

Sky trains are just more congestion. Need teleporters.

To my knowledge, the shuttles all pick people up from San Francisco, which is a) a very long drive and therefore CO2-heavy even in buses, and b) has a huge housing shortage itself. So if workers commute from San Francisco to Cupertino, that creates an even larger gaps between the number of jobs in San Francisco and the number of housing units in San Francisco, forcing those who work in San Francisco to commute in from even farther away.

> if workers commute from San Francisco to Cupertino, that creates an even larger gaps between the number of jobs in San Francisco and the number of housing units in San Francisco

San Francisco's voters and politicians choose to restrict supply. An affordability crisis predictably ensued. Transmutating that into a burden on a non-SF company is incorrect, if still fascinating.

> To my knowledge, the shuttles all pick people up from San Francisco

Your knowledge, and many of your arguments in this thread, are wrong.

I can't speak about Apple, but other tech companies have shuttle buses that run to many different places.

The shuttles go to a ton of different suburbs around Cupertino, not just to SF. So your knowledge is incorrect.

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