Larkspur Landing

One thing that's notable about SMART is that it is very highly intermodal.

About half of all departures are timed to a Golden Gate ferry departure from Larkspur Terminal into downtown San Francisco itself, the Embarcadero building, and it is also tightly integrated with a multi-use bicycle and pedestrian trail that parallels almost the entire length of the line.

An important part of the history of SMART is the phased construction and its regular expansion.

The original portion of the line was actually the centermost portion, running from San Rafael to Santa Rosa.

Only once this portion was built did they actually start extending southward from San Rafael to the Larkspur terminal for the ferry, and they are presently in the process of expanding northward.

Windsor Station is already open, Healdsburg Station is under construction, and eventually the system will reach Cloverdale Station.

My personal hope is that they don't stop there and they start inaugurating regional service and maybe make it all the way up to Arcata and Eureka, but that's in the far, far off future if that ever does end up happening.

Larkspur.

Larkspur Landing,

right? Right.

So when they said Vallejo, at first it was like, well, you should definitely go to Larkspur instead of Vallejo, mainly because Larkspur is prettier as a ferry terminal.