"Yahoo's buses prowl through the Mission District and a number of other city neighborhoods, pulling over every 10 blocks or so to ingest clusters of workers waiting on the sidewalk, before turning onto Highway 101 and motoring to Sunnyvale. Like Google's buses, the Yahoo buses run on biodiesel, giving environmentally conscious employees another reason to feel good about their commute, besides comfortable seats, the cup holders and the Wi-Fi."
Mike Swift in the San Jose Mercury News chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley workers commuting from San Francisco. (Including the Late Adopter's housemate at the end of the line in the accompanying photo.)
Monday, November 08, 2010
Bedroom Community by the Bay
Labels:
California,
economic history,
San Francisco,
San Jose,
technology,
transportation,
twenty-first century,
urban history
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