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BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE GAPS <br />Providing for walking and bicycling has <br />the potential to reduce auto dependency, <br />mitigate traffic congestion and contribute <br />to improved air quality and community <br />health. <br />The 2035 Future Scenario model indicates <br />that approximately 14 percent of trips are <br />less than one mile long. These trips are <br />ideal opportunities for walking. Likewise, <br />80 percent of the trips are less than five <br />miles long and have potential to become <br />bicycle trips. <br />Awell-designed multimodal network that <br />is safe, efficient and provides direct access <br />to key land uses could potentially convert <br />short trips to an active mode such as <br />walking or bicycling. <br />The current pedestrian and bicycle <br />networks in the City of San Marcos have <br />missing links in critical areas. Where they <br />exist, many sections of sidewalks are <br />poorly maintained. The City of San Marcos <br />maintains an inventory of sidewalks <br />including missing sidewalk segments and <br />planned sidewalks segments. <br />Beginning in 2016 the City <br />implemented a sidewalk maintenance <br />program to replace and construct gaps <br />=�"2 <br />in infrastructure. This program replaces <br />over 10,500 linear feet of sidewalk <br />�ih <br />each year. <br />t� <br />Progress should continue towards <br />construction of these sidewalks <br />outside the Transportation Master Plan <br />projects. <br />�; <br />