Too many hills, no signal.
Golden Gate Transit no longer offers free Wi-Fi on its 120 buses, because the "technology simply didn't work... because of Marin's hilly topography," according the Marin Independent Journal.
The Internet signals cost about $6,000 a month, the newspaper reported. That was simply too much for "spotty at best" service, officials declared.
Wi-Fi may return to Golden Gate Transit buses, which many Marinites use to reach jobs in San Francisco. Officials will see if a 4G network will fit the bill within "six months," a spokeswoman said.
The bus Wi-Fi project cost $245,000 and was up and running first in 2011.
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