Vision San Marcos Comprehensive Plan

EX IST ING CONDI T IONS ROADWAYS

assembly serves as a tool to guide the land

development process and ensure that any new

roadway construction is consistent with other

The current roadway network contains

TRANSPORTAT ION

transportation facilities and the surrounding

approximately 463 centerline miles of roads.

land uses, whether existing

• EXISTING CONDITIONS

This value accounts for both city, county

or proposed. TRAFFIC SIGNALS

and state maintained roadways. The Texas

• TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL

Department of Transportation (TxDOT) oversees

There are currently 51 traffic signals in

the maintenance and operations of roads

• PROJECTIONS

operation throughout the city. Nearly one-

designated as interstates and state highways.

quarter (25 percent) of these traffic signals are

The remaining roadway network is the

• FIGURES APPENDIX:

located within the downtown area and are

responsibility of Hays County in the ETJ and the

Thoroughfare Assembly

synchronized

City of San Marcos within city limits. Depending

Bridges

on the type of roadway, the number of lanes

Traffic Signals

range from 2-lane minor streets to the 6-lane

Public Transportation

interstate highway. Thoroughfare Assembly

Bicycle Infrastructure

is a way to categorize roads based on the

Sidewalk Inventory

surrounding land uses, the type of access they

provide to properties and the types of vehicles

that are meant to travel there. The thoroughfare