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 Stop selling out to Texas State Texas State bus transit service is included in our tuition and fees that we pay each semester. If it is being combined with the city transit system, how would they pay for that work out? Would we have to pay extra? Or would the bus fee betaken away from our tuition and fees and we pay for a bus pass? Additionally, the Texas State busses are already pretty full most of the time to where students are having to wait for multiple busses to come and go before getting a spot. Wouldn't adding city residents to this make them even more crowded? Unless you can make this situation less expensive and more accessible to Texas State students, I truly feel it is best to keep the transit systems separate in order to keep the students' best interests in mind. Texas state students currently pays a bus service how will this change? And currently the bus to school always is pack. Sometimes it takes 40 mins waiting on a bus. Will this impact that Thank you for your efforts! The elderly, students, financially disadvantaged, and the Earth thank you! If I may, connecting to Austin, Kyle, Buda, even San Antonio for commuters and day trippers would be epic! I would ride that puppy All TH E TIME. The bike lanes/parallel parking spots on Guadalupe St. will only congest traffic. Taking out a lane with the amount of increasing gasoline vehicle traffic is a bad idea. The bikes are good but not always available close to the bus stop if there was something else where I don't have to walk in the heat it would be easier. I broke my toe and this was so hard to get around when walking to and from a near bus stop. I wish there was something other than the bus or at least more buses. I depend on the bus or bikes. The question regarding ranking assumes I have an opinion about the bus service. The su rvey is faulty from that standpoint and all data should be assumed incorrect as there are many like me that don't care if the bus comes sooner, or if there's more shade shelters. I want parking downtown. The transit system is completely bifurcated: the TXST system makes assumptions about where students live and serves only them; the CARTS system makes assumptions about where SMTXresidents work and takes them there. Both assumptions are incorrect. We need to re -think the transit system, focusing on circulation and in -town mobility, integrating the student and resident populations, connecting high population neighborhoods with the urban core. It's crazy that it would take me an hour to get from my house to TXST for work... I can walk or bike in a fraction of that time. We also need better bus shelters to signal a commitment to areas/neighborhoods/businesses. The Texas State buses currently run lights and cut cars off. The stops for both the Texas State buses and the city buses have stops that really only cover by apartment complexes. When I did live on the bus line, it was expensive to ride the bus and the service was not consistent. The U niversity Shuttle moves 30k people per month and the city 1 Ox less than that. Don'tjust throw money in to a system to then claim the city bus service now moves33k/month. That's a scam. Face it you have a non -student community that doesn't want a bus system. You could give everyone a free door to door service for the amount you are spending annually right now. Quit trying to do EXACT LY what Austin does. There needs to be a last mile, weather considering, micro transit solution. There should be bus services that run around town (grocery stores/ shopping complexes/ parks) multiple times a week. This is a poorly designed survey. More frequent service? Does that mean more often than the 8 minutes for the Bobcat Shuttle, or the 45 minutes for the Bus? Who is going to pay for it? It asked nothing about how we felt about integrating service. All of this is duplicating the workthat was done by the previous study! U nless there is a rampant overhaul into creating more accessibility for buses to students, there is no room for a merger in terms of capacity. Students already wait on multiple buses because they're full, many aren't getting to their destinations at the right time and some don't even have access to a bus stop remotely close to them. U ntil you can address the issues of capacity and efficiency in one system being used, there is no need to add on more to it for it will cause more problems and failures than you could expect successes. Combining said routes and shuttles Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. ( B-25