{"id":1419,"date":"2007-08-12T22:34:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T03:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2007-08-12T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T03:34:56","slug":"car-ban-at-marin-headlands-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/08\/12\/car-ban-at-marin-headlands-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Car ban at Marin Headlands proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a move afoot to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/08\/12\/HEADLANDS.TMP\">ban car traffic at the Marin Headlands<\/a> on some busy weekends, the Chron reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>\nThe Golden Gate National Recreation Area has been circulating a plan that would improve roads and parking, add bike lanes and trails, add shuttle service and periodically ban cars in some of the most popular areas.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe car-free proposal and another idea to charge for parking are the most controversial elements of the district&#8217;s transportation plan for the hilly, often fog- and wind-swept region on the southernmost end of Marin County.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The main message here is we&#8217;re going to try it. We&#8217;re going to see how it is going to work,&#8221; Nancy Hornor, the chief of planning for the GGNRA, said about the idea to ban cars. &#8220;There are a lot of logistics that need to be worked out, but we think it&#8217;s worth a try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nPark officials are asking the public to submit comments about the project&#8217;s draft environmental report by Monday. The plans are the most dramatic changes proposed for the site since the military abandoned it in the late 1960s and an ill-fated idea was hatched for a community of 20,000 people called &#8220;Marincello.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough the details have not been worked out, Hornor said cars would be banned at first on about seven holiday or weekend days a year. If the concept works, she said, the number of auto-less days might be increased.<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/1101041670\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1252\/1101041670_a9e04c6f69.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pacific Ocean\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the Pacific Ocean from the Marin Headlands I took last month.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always been cool to be able just drive till you run out of continent up there, but the area is getting more and more jammed with cars every time I go up there on a weekend.  Here&#8217;s hoping they figur out how to let the surfers and kayakers into that lagoon just north of the Headlands, it looks like a excellent place to put in, and I&#8217;ve seen some excellent waves there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a move afoot to ban car traffic at the Marin Headlands on some busy weekends, the Chron reports. The Golden Gate National Recreation Area has been circulating a plan that would improve roads and parking, add bike lanes and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/08\/12\/car-ban-at-marin-headlands-proposed\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}