A 70-year-old San Francisco resident is on a one-man mission to keep tech shuttles on the straight and narrow.
The San Francisco Examiner features Edward Mason, who is personally responsible for 28 percent of all SFMTA enforcement actions against tech shuttles.
In 2014, the city began monitoring and regulating the private commuter shuttles frequently hired by tech companies to bring employees between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Mason began his campaign at the same time. Overall, he’s tipped off the agency on 282 code violations.
Mason’s emails detail scores of infractions, including a shuttle idling in a narrow street it’s not allowed in, shuttles staging in Muni stops, shuttles blocking access to Muni buses, incorrect permit decals, incorrect license plates and more.
While the shuttles have genera controversial for several years—some praise their impact on single-occupancy car trips, while others decry the privatization of infrastructure, their role in tech-driven gentrification, and a lack of clarity on the shuttle’s environmental impacts.
FULL STORY: Meet the SF man responsible for more than a quarter of all tech bus complaints
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