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> San Francisco is overrun by tech conjurers who are rapidly annihilating its remarkable diversity; they swarm in and out of the metropolis in specially chartered buses to work in Silicon Valley

Swarm?

According to this SF Examiner article in 2017, there are 9,800 commuters every day from the shuttle program. That's barely over 1% of the city's population.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/tech-workers-voice-support-commute...

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That's the line that made me give up on the article. The author twists the truth to fit his narrative.

That's still a lot of people, even statistically, and a weird, weird, phenomenon.

What weird, weird phenomenon - employers providing buses because existing public transit sucks?

Yeah, that's weird, in my opinion, as a New Yorker.

I lived/worked in New York when financial service companies handed out car service vouchers to those who had to work late (and to everyone at any official event involving alcohol). That was equally weird and more wasteful.

I wish the public transit in the Bay Area were better, but given that it does suck, I'm glad the buses exist.

Remember NYC has the advantage of being a unified city - the fractured Bay Area cities have way more infighting when trying to build anything.

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