Jordan Reznick (left) and Bevan Richardson block a tech bus at a protest over the buses using parking for parents and teachers of Fairmount Elementary School.
Jordan Reznick (left) and Bevan Richardson block a tech bus at a protest over the buses using parking for parents and teachers of Fairmount Elementary School. © Jessica Christian / The Chronicle

In San Francisco at this time last year, Google bus protestors and Ellis Act rage were making the news everyday. The City seems a little more...adjusted these days.

"San Francisco’s antitech movement, it appears, has fizzled before it ever really took off," according to an article by Kristen V. Brown.

Brown cites a source from inside the protest movement to deliver a postmortem:

"'As it turned out, after the media had digested our actions, there was no groundswell of support from young people or everyday residents of San Francisco,' said a representative of the Counterforce, an anonymous collective and one of the Bay Area's most theatrical tech protest groups. 'By the middle of 2014, it was clear that only the same small groups would keep acting against the tech industry, and gradually the momentum was halted.'"

The anti-tech movement focused some of its ire toward planning related policy issues, such as Ellis Act evictions and the use of private, chartered buses at public transit stops.