By Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local
To be less irksome to neighbors, they could be smaller and the routes could be restricted to larger streets. But transportation experts say the tech buses between San Francisco and Silicon Valley basically do a good job at what they do — effectively shuttling approximately 35,000 people a day and most likely keeping thousands of cars off the freeway.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which passed its resolution to let the tech buses use Muni stops for $1 per stop in January and limit where these buses can stop, will be holding public hearings this month to seek input on which Muni stops the shuttles should be using. Those who cannot attend the meetings have until February 23 to post comments on an interactive map on the agency’s website.
In advance of those meetings, Mission Local asked transportation experts for their ideas on how to mitigate the intensity of the buses’ impact on the neighborhoods in which they operate. The experts addressed the transportation issues and not the larger issues of rising rents or gentrification, though all said that these issues were crucial for policy officials to address.
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