ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the office settings which not only speak to some of the most pressing growth issues in the Bay Area, and also highlight institutional arrangements that local governments and the business community have forged in an effort to resolve mounting mobility problems. Largely built-out suburban settings like the Silicon Valley limit the effectiveness of design approaches to transportation problem solving. Any effective intervention in mobility problems in more mature suburban settings like the Silicon Valley must almost by default concentrate on solutions that influence travel behavior rather than those that stress physical redesign. A potentially volatile traffic situation is brewing along some of the Bay Area's fastest growing suburban corridors. Despite the fact that acute jobs-housing imbalances are known to be at the heart of Santa Clara County's traffic woes, new office buildings continue to cluster in areas devoid of affordable housing.
