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MyStatesman.com
April 15, 2018
A little over a week ago, the American-Statesman and other media told you that a flock of electrically powered rental scooters, from a company called Bird Rides Inc., had suddenly perched on Austin streets, and the city of Austin intended to impound those scooters found to be blocking the public right of wayÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
April 13, 2018
Now, picture Austin in 20 years with just our two MetroRapid routes, one MetroRail line and 4 million people. We need solutions — and we need to think big! Construction on the first of these projects won't begin for a few more years at least, and some of what we're proposing won't be completed for 10 to 15Ãâà...
The Texas Monitor
April 3, 2018
Austin voters have shown no appetite for large scale rail projects since they turned back a $600 million bond in 2014. Taxpayers have been vocal in their disappointment with the ever-growing cost and underperformance of the single MetroRail line from downtown Austin to Leander, approved in 2004.
MyStatesman.com
March 30, 2018
With 62 percent approving, voters in 2004 gave Capital Metro permission to build the 32-mile MetroRail line from downtown Austin to Leander. READ: New law makes it hard to track driverless car testing in Texas. The plan and upcoming Capital Metro board votes are the initial steps in what would be aÃâà...
TOWERS Austin (blog)
March 29, 2018
That's the intended goal of the Transit Oriented-Development (TOD) known as Chestnut Plaza emerging around the MLK Jr. Capital MetroRail station, which has completely transformed the corner of East MLK Jr. Boulevard and Alexander Avenue in a little more than a decade. The city first designated theÃâà...
Community Impact Newspaper
March 28, 2018
Many Round Rock residents pick up MetroRail from the Howard station because of its proximity. Last August, Capital Metro launched a new Express commuter bus route from Round Rock that makes a stop at the Howard station. Vanessa Stampley, who commutes from Round Rock to downtown Austin,Ãâà...
Austin Chronicle
March 23, 2018
Over the past week, in an effort to improve the reliability of its MetroRail service, Capital Metro tried out a test schedule designed to reduce delays, moving arrival times up 10 minutes at each stop. And on Thursday the agency announced the tweaked times were such a success that it will operate on the newÃâà...
KVUE.com
March 22, 2018
AUSTIN -- Capital Metro's new schedule for its Metro Rail line comes after higher-than-normal service disruptions this year -- when trains were sometimes behind schedule and, in some cases, not running at all. CapMetro said on-time performance used to be 96 percent or higher. The last few months, thatÃâà...
Community Impact Newspaper
March 19, 2018
Chapman Parks, new MetroRail schedule: 8 things to know in Cedar Park and Leander this week, March 19-23 ... The West Austin Chamber of Commerce and Scripps National Spelling Bee announced the final participants for the Austin Regional Spelling Bee, which will be held Sunday, March 25, at theÃâà...
