There’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 trails, add shuttle service and periodically ban cars in some of the most popular areas.

The car-free proposal and another idea to charge for parking are the most controversial elements of the district’s transportation plan for the hilly, often fog- and wind-swept region on the southernmost end of Marin County.

“The main message here is we’re going to try it. We’re going to see how it is going to work,” Nancy Hornor, the chief of planning for the GGNRA, said about the idea to ban cars. “There are a lot of logistics that need to be worked out, but we think it’s worth a try.”

Park officials are asking the public to submit comments about the project’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 “Marincello.”

Although 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.

Here’s a picture of the Pacific Ocean from the Marin Headlands I took last month.

It’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’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’ve seen some excellent waves there.