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]

Now that the taxi industry has been disrupted all the way to its deathbed, Silicon Valley has set its sights on a new prize: municipal buses. And Chariot, an "Uber for the rest of us," says it has the secret sauce to shake up the government stranglehold on busing.

The only thing more laughable than protestors demanding that tech corporations pay San Francisco $1 billion/year for illegally using public bus stops is Mayor Ed Lee's proposed solution. His plan calls for companies like Google to pay a pitiful $1 per bus stop squat.

[Demonstrators blocked a Google shuttle bus at 24th and Mission this morning with signs that said "Two-Tier System" and "Illegal Use of Public Infrastructure." Activists want tech companies to pay San Francisco $1 billion for "illegal" use of MUNI bus stops to fund affordable housing and help block evictions. One Google bus rider, upset about the delay in her commute, described the shuttle as hijacked and #undersiege. Image via Twitter]