Fight Smog or Fill Bus Seats? San Francisco Faces Future Choice

摘要

Public transit agencies in the San Francisco Bay area are mobilizing against a proposal to fight air pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions, by requiring certain companies’ employers to keep 60% of their employees working from home. “We’re not opposed to working from home. We’re just opposed to a very inflexible work-from-home mandate,” Nick Josefowitz, a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said in an interview. The telecommuting proposal is part of a joint draft blueprint by the commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments, which has to figure out how to comply with a 2008 state law that ordered emissions reductions for the region of 19% per person beginning in 2035.