Mountain View to Google: Take your techno-utopian factory town and shove it

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By Heather SmithMay 8, 2015, 11:34 am18 pts
Google made a ton of promises to the city of Mountain View, Calif.: New bike paths. New pedestrian bridges over the highway. Two new parks. Wetlands restoration. An educational science center. Major expansion of the free shuttle system that Google started running in Mountain View a year ago. $1.5 million in…

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