By Cecilia M. Vega, Wyatt Buchanan
San Francisco Chronicle
Originally Published April 14, 2007

Cars would be banned from a stretch of Golden Gate Park's main road on Saturdays for six months of the year under a groundbreaking agreement reached Friday that could end a long-running and acrimonious debate over vehicle usage in San Francisco's largest park.  The compromise, which will require approval from the Board of Supervisors, came after more than 15 hours of negotiations in City Hall brokered by Mayor Gavin Newsom's office. It would make a stretch of roadway off limits to vehicles from the first Saturday of April through the last Saturday of September every year. The deal also covers a smaller area than is currently closed off to cars on Sundays and makes the ban permanent, scrapping a proposed six-month trial period. Read more »