Res 2020-192/approving the San Marcos Transit Plan, also referred to as the Five-Year Strategic Plan for Transit Service

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SAN MARCOS TRANSIT PLAN I FINALREPORT City of San Marcos infrastructure, create additional traffic, and provide less equitable ways to move around. Land use must be considered in the larger picture of mobility as we plan for a growing community responsibly. Lastly, improving bus stop facilities that are situated on wide, dangerous high-speed roads with no shade, pedestrian connections, or informational facilities can greatly deter ridership. It is essential that all multi -modal riders feel comfortableand safe moving about San Marcos. I thinkthere are a lot of great opportunities moving forward with conversations around transit and am excited to see those opportunities come to fruition. Do you have service options to New Braunfels? Austin? Educate Texas State students parking downtown hurts the business Expansion to high school and other areas taken into the city limits Get the input of the drivers. They are the ones that know the routes b better than you. Or someoneyou hire Have bobcat tram make stop at big H EB and post office Have more stops at different places will be great. Have park and rides from Kyle please:) Have visible safety protocols for bus drivers and signage for passengers. Developmore frequent night routes. Honestly more frequent service, earlier and later in the day and weekend service would be the best addition. i am quite concerned about the future of the carts interurban service. this is a critical lifeline for more than just students including veterans and working families. it is unclear how this plan/studywill impact carts interurban. I come from Portland, OR where we have a light rail called the Max that is accessible to most of the suburbs. Austin needs this, San Marcos needs this. It would pay for itself in no time. The traffic here is atrocious and I'd never work in Austin with the public transit in place now. With a train I would. San Marco would benefit if a train could take people from downtown to the outlet malls, and if they could get here from the airport San Marcos would have even more tourism. I couldn't get my son on time for his after-school activities—as a single mother scheduled pickups need to be enforced or available I don't even know where the closest bus stop is. They don't stand o ut. I feel like the traffic situation downtown has gotten unbearable and it is only going to get worse with all the new student housing being built in the area. I live 4 miles from work (Texas State) and it sometimes takes me 30+ minutes to get home. I think this could partially be solved by having smarter stoplights that take into account the increased traffic coming out of the university around 5pm, but we also need to look for ways to have fewer cars in that area. I love using the CARTS bus because the stops are convenient around town and the drivers are redly great. I don't even mind having to pay to use it. I only wish there was service on the weekends, since I don't have a car and the Texas State bus only goes to apartments and the school, which makes it tough to run errands on the weekend. I particularly appreciate the kind patience that the bus drivers show my students and other residents who have special needs. They go above and beyond in taking time to know and look out for the people of our com munity. I hope that, as service expands, the accommodating culture continues and flourishes. I think merge would be a great idea and would make accessing other parts of San Marcos other than campus easier for students without access to a vehicle I think I may need to use the paratransit services, but I'm not certain how they work. If I go buy groceries, how do I get home? I want to see a system for low income families with young children to have access to no cost transportation options, with improved access to stops at locations like The Village Main where WIC and Community Action are housed. Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. ( B-22