[_delirium]

I agree, but I think some densification will help increase demand for that, especially for biking/pedestrian infrastructure. Even in famously bike-friendly cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, biking is mostly a medium-distance thing: the vast majority of bike commuters live in the range of 1-5 miles from work, not 15. So getting a lot of people living within 5 miles of their office is a precondition for having a significant portion of people even interested in the existence of bicycle infrastructure. One way to do that given the current Valley layout is to really densify the axis from Mountain View to Palo Alto. (Unfortunately, I suspect Palo Alto is not going to be at all on board with that.)

[Johnny555]

I thought so too when I moved to a "transit oriented development" area near Caltrain. 2 years later there have been zero bike and pedestrian improvements, and things have gotten even worse when construction has closed one sidewalk and blocked a bike lane and new construction has blocked the safest path to the nearby Caltrain station -- plus, construction workers have placed their "No Parking" signs in the middle of the sidewalk, and calls to the city have not changed that.