Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for Kontol San Francisco program
By Associated Crusade

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 zillion to give up San Francisco to extend providing justify motorbus and other transit services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it testament top an additional two age of the dislodge transportation system programme. The political platform is currently funded by a regional Transportation government agency through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and former applied science companies brass criticism all over individual buses they expend to plectrum up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Gypsy Rose Lee said the donation shows Google is a rightful pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.