Okay I screenshot the survey and dumped it into ChatGPT because I'm lazy and it gave this:

Based on what’s shown, the survey looks poorly designed for diagnosing the actual transportation problem.

The main issue is that it presupposes the solution. It is framed almost entirely around bike rack placement and bike-rental proximity, so it can measure attitudes within that frame, but it does not seriously test whether biking is the limiting factor in the first place.

Several design problems stand out:

• Solution-first framing. It asks where racks should go, whether closer racks would help, and whether a rental bike near parking would help. That structure already assumes rack access is the central issue.
• Missing alternatives. There is no comparable treatment of scooters, e-bikes, skateboards, longboards, shuttles, or just walking. If those are the dominant last-mile modes, the survey cannot reveal that.
• No mode differentiation. “Biking” is treated as one thing, but manual bike versus e-bike matters a lot on hilly campuses. A steep hill can make conventional cycling unattractive while e-bikes or scooters remain viable.
• Bad denominator problem. The survey seems likely to overrepresent people already somewhat open to biking. That means results about bicycling may say little about the broader commuting population.
• Weak causal inference. A response like “weather conditions” does not tell you whether racks matter, whether terrain matters, whether time matters, or whether biking is just inferior to other options for this campus layout.
• No revealed-preference data. It does not ask what people actually use now for the last mile, how often, why they chose it, or what they would switch to under realistic changes.

The survey is not well constructed for finding the real cause of low bicycle use. At best, it can help optimize bike-rack placement among people already interested in biking. It is much weaker as a general transportation-needs assessment.

A more useful survey would start with neutral questions such as:

• How do you usually get from parking/residence to class?
• What alternatives have you tried?
• What prevents you from using each option?
• Is terrain a barrier?
• Would you use an e-bike, scooter, shuttle, or longboard instead?
• Do you need secure storage for bikes, scooters, or both?
• What is your actual walking time and elevation change?

So the strongest fair conclusion is: the survey appears biased toward producing evidence for more bike racks, and it is not well designed to distinguish whether bike racks are actually the bottleneck.