Map Reveals Corporate Bus Routes Tech Workers Take
May 18, 2013 by
A San Francisco design firm has literally drawn a map
showing how the city and Silicon Valley are growing closer together through a
network of private corporate buses.Earlier this year, Stamen Design took a commission from San Jose-based arts nonprofit Zero1 to create a piece for the group’s 2012 biennial exhibit on the theme “Seeking Silicon Valley.”
Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck wanted to tackle a phenomenon he witnessed right outside his Mission District office: rising numbers of private buses taking tech workers who live in San Francisco down to offices in Silicon Valley. Mr. Rodenbeck and his team decided to map out the bus lines and the flow of people they carried.
In researching the routes, they discovered the buses were shuttling the equivalent of one-third the daily traffic carried by the public Caltrain commuter railroad—and ignited a conversation about mass public versus elite private transportation in the Bay Area.
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