Palo Alto and Mountain View would need to 1. Want those BART stops. If they're anything like the suburbs of Boston, however, you will get a ton of pushback from

Palo Alto and Mountain View would need to 1. Want those BART stops. If they're anything like the suburbs of Boston, however, you will get a ton of pushback from "higher-class" suburbanites not wanting the "riff-raff" from the city, who can't even afford cars, able to easily/cheaply get to their cities. 2. Allow re-development such that they have enough density/low-cost housing to support the number of BART riders needed to justify those new stops. Without this, there won't be any new housing for people to spread out to. 3. Have a consistent enough transit system from the BART stops, so that you can actually access the areas more than a 30 min. walk from the BART stops 4. Build up paths to allow people to walk to and around the BART stops. I've noticed in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, there often aren't sidewalks: if you want to walk on a major East-West route, you'll be doing it in the same lane as cars going 45.