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City Council Meeting Minutes July 7, 2020 <br />run stop signs. We've had at least three accidents that I can count due to the <br />detours. And the speed -dampening sign that was installed near on San Antonio <br />Street near Johnson had to be removed after it caused a two -car pile-up <br />because of --wait for it --through traffic. While San Antonio Street has taken on <br />highway -level traffic, Belvin has essentially been turned into a private road, to <br />the point where city police are now ticketing citizens simply for driving on it. If <br />the San Marcos Police Department (SMPD) is ticketing motorists on Belvin <br />simply for driving on Belvin because it's a closed street, then they should do <br />the same for inbound traffic on San Antonio Street, since it is technically <br />"closed" where it meets Hopkins near Jack's Roadhouse. Motorists regularly <br />drive past the barricade and turn on Olive or Pitt, completely bypassing the <br />detour. While Belvin is a residential street, so is San Antonio. In fact, San <br />Antonio Street is home to many more families, many more families with <br />children, experiences significantly more foot and bicycle traffic, and represents <br />a larger property tax base. We realize the traffic has to go somewhere, but it's <br />both unfair and unnecessarily dangerous for San Antonio alone to shoulder <br />this burden (and let's face it ... it's not realistic to expect any motorist to drive <br />all the way to Bishop more than once before coming up with an alternate <br />route). A more equitable solution would be to divert incoming traffic onto San <br />Antonio St., and outgoing traffic onto Belvin. Use signage to route large trucks <br />onto Bishop. <br />Margaret Adie: <br />The traffic situation on San Antonio Street is growing worse. Through -traffic <br />motorists regularly speed and run stop signs. We've had at least three accidents <br />that I can count due to the detours. One friend was run off the road by a <br />delivery truck headed to CVS. And the speed -dampening sign that was <br />installed near Johnson on San Antonio Street had to be removed after it <br />caused a two -car pile-up because of --wait for it --through traffic. While San <br />Antonio Street has taken on highway -level traffic, Belvin has essentially been <br />turned into a private road, to the point where city police are now ticketing <br />citizens simply for driving on it. If the San Marcos Police Department (SMPD) <br />is ticketing motorists simply for driving on Belvin because it's a closed street, <br />then they should do the same for inbound traffic on San Antonio Street, since <br />it is technically "closed" where it meets Hopkins near Jack's Roadhouse. <br />Motorists regularly drive past the barricade and turn on and SPEED DOWN <br />Olive or Pitt, completely bypassing the detour. Then they fly down San <br />Antonio Street unimpeded by police or, as noted above, even stop signs. While <br />Belvin is a residential street, so is San Antonio. In fact, San Antonio Street is <br />home to many more families, and many more families with children. San <br />Antonio Street experiences significantly more foot and bicycle traffic, and <br />City of San Marcos Page 2 <br />