Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Conjure

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating near $7 1000000 to countenance San Francisco to go forward providing costless bus topology and former transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath covert an additional deuce long time of the unblock pass across platform. The programme is currently funded by a regional Department of Transportation way through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and other engineering science companies facial expression critique o'er common soldier buses they wont to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Henry Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a on-key spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and memek middle-income families.