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The Multimodal Transportation Commission (MTC) has the principal duty of acting as an advisory body to the Transportation Director on exceptions to the Complete Streets Policy. The Commission also serves as a recommending body for reviewing and updating policies procedures and plan metrics benchmarks and amendments to City Code. The Commission will receive regular staff updates on Transportation Department plans policies and projects. The commission comprises 13 members: 10 City Council-appointed members one (1) member appointed by the Mayor one (1) member appointed by VIA and one (1)...

What does it actually take to make a street safer in San Antonio? In 2024, Beacon Hill residents identified Blanco Road as the number one street in the neighborhood needing safety improvements. So a group of neighbors decided not to wait for the city to fix it. With a small AARP Community Challenge Grant, a Saturday morning walk audit, and some paint, they built one of the first community-led quick-build street safety projects in San Antonio history — a bulb-out and crosswalk at Blanco and Elsmere that took three hours to install and cost around $7,000. This is the story of what it actually took to make it happen: the original vision, the pivot forced by the governor's office, eight months of engineering reviews and city departments, and what a small project like this could mean for safer streets across the city. Learn more about ActivateSA and their work across San Antonio: https://activatesa.org