Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Worker Buses as Assaults Resume

Round 4 years in the past, individuals began attacking the shuttle buses that took Google staff to and from work, as a manner of protesting the tech-company-driven gentrification going down round San Francisco. Effectively, it appears to be taking place once more.

This time it’s not simply Google


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–it’s Apple’s constitution buses too. At the least 5 of the iPhone-maker’s shuttles have not too long ago had their home windows smashed whereas in transit. In keeping with an e mail despatched to Apple employees, the primary assault occurred final Friday, adopted by 4 extra on Tuesday.

It’s suspected that somebody is taking pictures out the home windows utilizing pellet weapons, or maybe throwing rocks. The assaults occurred on freeway 280, so Apple


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is diverting its buses from that street, though doing so will add 30-45 minutes to the commute time in both path.

A Google bus was additionally attacked on the identical street on Tuesday, SFGate reported. Google, too, is rerouting its shuttles from the freeway in consequence.

In keeping with California Freeway Patrol spokesman Artwork Montiel, cited in SFGate’s protection, the assaults all occurred whereas the buses have been occupied and transferring. Nonetheless, no accidents have been reported.

The buses weren’t marked with the logos of the businesses that chartered them. Nonetheless, in keeping with a Guardian report, the businesses are identifiable by the colours of the buses: white for Google, silver for Apple and blue for Fb


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“If somebody was focusing on the buses, I’m positive they’re going to discover them anyplace they go. It’s not like they’re hidden,” the report quoted Montiel as saying.

The protests that occurred in 2013 and 2014 have been prompted by gentrification within the Bay Space, as a result of excessive salaries of tech firm staff, and in addition by anger over surveillance and automation.