Google's New Bike Plan Wants Silicon Valley to Be More Like Copenhagen

Commuting in Silicon Valley is a drag. The big tech companies that make their homes there know that, and devote significant resources to sweetening the trip to work for their employees, like the famous (or infamous) buses that shuttle workers from San Francisco down the peninsula’s crowded highways.

But as the tech giants plan massive campus expansions in the area, overburdened transportation infrastructure is going to become even more strained. When the digital behemoths seek approval for the architectural flights of fancy they want to build on limited available land (a hotly competitive process that goes on for years), the question of how to accommodate all those commuters is often one of the key sticking points.