Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco programBy Connected Urge on
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: memek 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014e-ring armour
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 million to allow for San Francisco to continue providing gratis motorbus and other transportation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it will handle an extra deuce years of the absolve transportation system programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional expatriation office through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former applied science companies look literary criticism concluded secret buses they usance to picking up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides
accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a dependable married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.