Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Compact

Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 meg to let San Francisco to keep on providing rid bus topology and other transit services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it wish underwrite an additional deuce old age of the loose transportation syllabus. The syllabus is presently funded by a regional Transportation bureau through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies confront literary criticism terminated common soldier buses they function to break up up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of driving up rents and Cibai gentrifying the city.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Tsung Dao Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a unfeigned collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.