A substantial variety of technology workers responded to a recent anonymous SFMTA survey seeking to ascertain potential locations for new technology-shuttle hearts that would reduce the impact the much maligned shuttles have on Muni bus stops and areas. Those people who still need to endure the occasional indignities of standard public transit, however, likely do not have empathy for these anxieties, and in a data dump from the survey supplied to SFist Tuesday, we’ve the IP addresses of many of the respondents — who likely, as technology workers, should have understood the answers would not be 100 percent unattributable in that respect.
The survey, which closed on Monday to public replies, asked for possible shuttle hearts in addition to allowed for open ended answers for place ideas. That advice, correlated with a timestamp of the survey end, gives us a fairly good notion of who filled out the survey while.
The notion of the hearts, that the 125 technology-shuttle stops should be done away with and in their area the city should create consolidated pick-up/drop off areas where all technology buses converge, is understandably controversial — picture purchasing an apartment or signing a costly lease with the location of your institution’s shuttle stop as a determining factor. The removal of your shuttle stop, and the development of the hearts, would definitely affect your commute, even if only by a couple of minutes on each end.