City To Put in Bike Lanes, Seeks Input

Bike Lanes are planned for Thorpe Lane and Mill Street, and San Marcos Transportation engineers are holding two meetings for the public to give their input, The San Marcos Record reports.

The Thorpe Lane meeting is to be held at Allen Woods Homes at 6pm Thursday July 19th and the Mill Street meeting will be at Mill Street Park on Monday, July 23rd at 6pm.  (Please note the original article has the day of the 2nd meeting incorrectly listed as Thursday, July 23rd.)  Both streets are included in San Marcos' 2012 Street Overlay Program.

The initiative looks at each street that is set to be repaved or have minor reconstruction to see if there are low-cost ways such as restriping or sidewalk improvements, that could improve accessibility and safety for everyone on the roadway.  Making the street safer and more accessible to everyone on the road, whether it is vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists or public transit, is the focus of the Complete Streets Initiative.

Reconstructing a roadway is extremely expensive and takes decades to finish, so if engineers can make improvements to a roadway's capacity and accessibility by using cheaper methods such as restriping, it can provide users immediate relief.

Thorpe Lane is a four-lane, undivided commercial road with sidewalks on both sides.  The proposal suggests reducing the lanes from four lanes to three lanes and including bike lanes between Springton Way and Warden Lane.  Mill Street, which is a two-lane residential street with parking on each side, would see its bike lane extended from Uhland Road to Aquarena Springs Drive.

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