The board is scheduled to discuss possible direction on ordinance amendments covering pedicabs, general shuttle services and horse-drawn carriages. It will also consider whether to recommend traffic calming on part of Walnut Heights Boulevard to City Council.
Vehicle-for-hire rules
Item 5A, numbered 26-1214, calls for a presentation, discussion and possible direction on amendments to Chapter 138 of the New Braunfels Code of Ordinances. The listed subjects are pedicabs, general shuttle services and horse-drawn carriages. For people who operate, use or encounter these services, the useful distinction is between the board’s possible direction on Thursday and any later ordinance action. Readers should look for the precise language the board discusses and whether members ask staff to revise it or send it forward. The agenda establishes the topic and the possible direction, but it does not supply an Oct. 8 result.
Walnut Heights recommendation
The Walnut Heights item asks the board to consider a traffic-calming recommendation to City Council for the stretch between Broadmoor Drive and McQueeney Road. Listed as item 6A, numbered 26-1187, it is a recommendation question: the board can discuss the corridor and consider what to advise the council. Residents following the existing Walnut Heights speed-hump dispute should distinguish any board recommendation from a final City Council decision. The next useful record will be the board’s disposition of item 6A and, if it forwards a recommendation, the council material that follows.
Other business and participation
The board's Sept. 10 meeting minutes are on the Oct. 8 agenda for approval. That consent item is listed as 3A, numbered 26-1215. The remaining opening and closing entries are the call to order, roll call and adjournment. Citizens’ communications appears as item 4 for concerns outside the agenda, with no board action scheduled during that period. The posted agenda identifies the public-comment opportunity but does not give an item-testimony signup procedure; residents who want to address a specific proposal can check the meeting instructions or contact the city before attending.
The Transportation & Traffic Advisory Board is scheduled to meet Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, at 6 p.m. in the Tejas Room, 550 Landa Street, New Braunfels. The agenda asks anyone needing an accessibility accommodation to contact the City Secretary at (830) 221-4010 at least two work days before the meeting. The city’s Legistar calendar is the route to the Oct. 8 agenda and packet; find the Transportation & Traffic Advisory Board entry for 6 p.m. in the Tejas Room to inspect the posted material before the meeting.
What to watch next
After the meeting, the board’s recorded direction on item 5A and its disposition of item 6A will show whether either proposal moves toward further city action. City Council material would be the next check for any Walnut Heights recommendation or ordinance proposal that advances. The Oct. 8 agenda supplies the questions before the board; later minutes or another official outcome record will establish what members actually did.