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 More coverage and access would be excellent. I love the idea of a single system for the city and university. My sister used Capital Metro attending UT and it worked well. Expanding options for locals is very needed. More frequent service (currently only stops every hour for the routes I take daily), later service (I have to rely on U ber/ Lyft when I get off work at 9:30pm) and weekend service (many riders are in the service industry, we work weekends!). More parking My job frequently requires that I drive a car. That said, I ditch the car when possible by biking and walking. I love Veoride. I would like to incorporate the bus into my transit routine, but I have had difficulty planning routes and didnt understand the app. That said, a group I am in has challenged us to use it so I'm going to try again. The Bobcat Shuttle is heavily utilized & CARTS is under-utilized, so it makes sense to incorporate them and I strongly support this plan. Need more options it is so hard to get around this place! Need to expand to airport, Gary job Corp and Blanco River Village One-wayservice at the Post Office makes checking my PO Box inconveniently time consuming. I walkto Hunter CVS for my return trip. Please add routes and public -school stops Please don't outsource public transit to U ber or Lyft - they are not friends of public transit (each included in their IPO filings the goal of supplanting public transit!), please arrange evening and weekend busses in town and between San Marcos and Austin, please consider reaching out to our big neighbor to the south and coordinating service to San Antonio with VIA. This region had discussed regional transit since the 1970s (!), and it's becoming quite a disaster. Please consider making downtowna "NO RIGHT -TU RN ON RED" zone (I've lived downtown with no car for a decade and it is very dangerous!), ticketing drivers who block crosswalks, and lowering speed -limits in the middle of town to a best practices 20 mph. Thankyou for allowing the input. Let's seize this opportunity to gain the pro -social, pro -environmental, and pro -mobility advantages of expanding our publictransit network and services and making the core a true pedestrian friendly place. On a related note, not directly transit, let's require downtown developers to include regular market -rate housing in their new (mostly student -oriented) developments, and require all new developments in the city to include affordable housing. People want to live here, and that means developers want to build, let's build a city worthy of living in! Real opportunity to get more people to ride the bus by rebranding the two lines into one system; should focus on getting would-be riders onto a few well-run, frequent, centrally -located, easy to understand lines and couple that with more paratransit to continue to serve those that depend on the bus as a lifeline service. Regional/interregional expansion between Austin/ San Antonio to include stops in Kyle please Safety of women should be a top priority this is a horrible idea San Marcos must aspire to become a city where it is possible to live *comfortably* without a car. It might be possible right now, but the current reality of living without a car in San Marcos is unpleasant, difficult, and it disadvantages citizens on the low end of the socio-economic spectrum. Schedules or bus stop locations in flyers delivered to home. I'm new to the area and have no idea where to meet buses. Service the community first, and TH EN the students. I am a student and I would prefer that community members have better access to transportation than students. The university CAN effectively service the community, and they choose not to. This is such a great opportunity to serve San Marcos permanent residents. Service to the Sienna Pointe apartments in San Marcos Shaded bus stops please Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. ( B-24