Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, Mesum 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 zillion to countenance San Francisco to continue providing free jitney and Memek other transportation services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it volition binding an additional two geezerhood of the liberal transit platform. The course of study is presently funded by a regional fare authority through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and Memek other engineering companies font literary criticism concluded private buses they function to piece up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Richard Henry Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a dependable collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and middle-income families.