Larkspur
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Fix the pedestrian crossing at Shoreline and Almonte before anything else. It's genuinely frightening to cross on foot or bike with beach traffic backed up, and people do it every day. Protected crossings and a connected sidewalk network should be the first investment, not the last.
Take the Larkspur ferry over just for the ride, then walk to Marin Country Mart for lunch — Rustic Bakery, a coffee, and the Saturday farmers' market if the timing lines up. It is the lowest-effort "feel like a local" afternoon I can offer a visitor, and the ferry deck back at sunset is the whole trip in one photo.
Astronomy night at Rock Spring on Mt. Tam — the Mount Tamalpais Astronomy Programs run free talks-plus-telescopes on Saturday evenings in the warm months. Bundle up, bring a red flashlight, and get there before dark for parking. A genuinely memorable night for a visitor who has only seen city skies.
If we redo the junction and the only "open space" is a slightly nicer parking field, we've failed. Pavement is the problem, not the solution. Every square foot we can pull back from cars and give to people and plants is the whole point of doing this.
