Google has donated $6.8 million to the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency (Muni) for a pilot program that would allow low- and middle-income San Francisco kids aged 5 to 17 to ride Muni for free. The donation comes as Bay Area tech companies have experienced increasing criticism from city residents who are upset about rising housing costs, gentrification, a wave of renter evictions, and perceived aloofness of tech companies and their employees, many of whom travel to jobs in the South Bay in luxurious private buses that use city bus stops for free.

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