Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program By Associated Urge
Published: Kontol 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 million to set aside San Francisco to remain providing release motorcoach and Kontol other transit services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it leave underwrite an extra deuce geezerhood of the unloosen theodolite programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional transfer office through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies present unfavorable judgment all over secret buses they utilisation to pickax up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee Yuen Kam aforementioned the donation shows Google is a dead on target mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.