San Francisco is just five days into its tech bus pilot program and one of Silicon Valley's glistening chariots has already lodged itself at the bottom of one of the city's hills. Fortunately for the bus operator, San Francisco's public transportation agency is en route to free it:

Google's glistening fleet of employee coaches will soon be tainted by the presence of Everyman. In an effort to get ahead of concerns that the search giant is growing too quickly for Mountain View, Google is funding a free shuttle network to appease their detractors.

San Francisco's plan to legalize the armada of tech buses has sailed past its last regulatory hurdle. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted today to approve increased fees charged to tech companies for using city bus stops, as part of its controversial shuttle pilot program.

How's this for a metaphor for what's going on in San Francisco? Directly outside City Hall yesterday, a pleb-filed Muni collided with a luxury tech bus. It's the rich and the poor—the private and public sectors—butting heads again before a mayor increasingly giving favors to Silicon Valley. [Photo: defabulous]

After a string of protests has failed to put the brakes on the increasingly hated "Google Bus" network, the San Franciso Examiner reports activists are taking the city to court, along with its cushy tech friends.

The day after an uncomfortable internal leak out of Google, anti-gentrification activists in San Francisco are attempting to shut down private shuttles from Facebook and Google, the old fashioned way.

Google's private shuttle system, which whisks staffers away from the cruel streets of San Francisco to the sterile safety of Mountain View, already has a big image problem. What could make it even more dystopian? How about a memo from the overlords with eerie talking points?

Artists, Bay Area residents, and Valleywag readers Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti shared their latest joint work with us—a series titled "The Streetviews of San Francisco." Or, more plainly, The Bus Wars. It's urban resentment you can fit on a shelf.

Well, if you're going to be awful, at least be awfully honest. Or something. Or, maybe think twice before hopping off the Google Bus as it's surrounded by protestors and saying "Why don't you go to a city where you can afford it? This is a city for the right people." Update: This was probably staged.