'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official

An anonymous reader writes "The Director of Sustainability for New York's MTA is calling out Google, Apple, and Yahoo for 'deliberately' building their campuses away from public amenities like restaurants, and public transportation. 'With very few honorable exceptions like Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, who recently moved his company headquarters from suburban Henderson to downtown Las Vegas, tech companies seem not to have gotten the memo that suburbs are old and bad news,' he writes. Instead of launching their own bus services to ferry people from the city to their campuses, as the tech companies have done, the Googles and Apples of the world should 'locate themselves in existing urban communities. Ideally, in blighted ones,' says Dutta." Maybe cities just don't have the right mix of amenities, price, space, parking, and other factors to make them better places to put certain businesses.

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Re:Ain't no body got time for that

[whitroth]

And you're a paranoid asshole who is deathly afraid of cities.

I grew up in a city, and have lived inside cities almost my whole life (and I probably started programming before you were born). In fact, I grew up in a slum. I've lived in downtowns, and outer neighborhoods. I can remember one person shot, and personally know one or two that were mugged, ever.

And I've never been either, nor been present when someone was shooting. I suppose I need to go to a suburban school for that.

                      mark