I agree, but I think some densification will help increase demand for that, especially for biking&#x2F;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 <i>at all</i> on board with that.)