In the new appified San Francisco, startup advertisements are everywhere: Our highway are lined with their obnoxious billboards, spinning-sign guys are used to recruit Lyft drivers, and ads dangle from doorknobs like pizza menus. Now, one startup is taking the scourge of parking tickets and using them to hawk quasi-legal services.

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.

San Francisco's controversial plan to charge tech employee shuttle operators $1 daily to legally use city bus stops has hit a bureaucratic roadblock. The pilot program's launch date has been pushed back to August 1st "because all the necessary hearings would not fit in the board of directors' summer schedule."