This is an interesting story about Google's involvement in public transit, though its tone is a bit too conspiratorial. It seems Google's Sidewalk Labs (and perhaps others?) could help reshape public transit by reducing the need for parking garages and parking lots while helping drivers find parking spaces; efficiently connecting riders to new modes of transportation; and eliminate poor uses of public transportation that don't really serve anyone, but cost the city resources.

I wonder what it would take to get this type of collaboration in OKC.

Sidewalk Labs, a secretive subsidiary of Alphabet, wants to radically overhaul public parking and transportation in American cities, emails and documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.

Its high-tech services, which it calls “new superpowers to extend access and mobility”, could make it easier to drive and park in cities and create hybrid public/private transit options that rely heavily on ride-share services such as Uber. But they might also gut traditional bus services and require cities to invest heavily in Google’s own technologies, experts fear.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...arking-transit