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Hyperloop and Boring Company were both created as distractions from real proven transit technologies, and the latter has been quite successful at getting rail projects cancelled or at least confusing politicians enough to delay them.

So it's basically just Tesla/Musk here, when people say "tech companies"?

Musk is an asshole, no argument there, but most tech company CEOs aren't nearly that crazy.

No, I provided one particularly eggregious example. Uber/Lyft have also lobbied against transit. The Google shuttles OP alludes to interfered with real transit operations.

They generally would, though for the most part I imagine they're just ambivalent here. As long as workers can get to work, that's most of what they care about.

Every time a tech company lobbies against taxes, they’re fighting public transit. Every time they spend the exact same money they just argued shouldn’t go to the state on privatized busses, they’re fighting public transit.