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Tag Archives: Capital Metro
Capital Metro reveals final four in its CEO search
The path to replace outgoing Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority President and CEO Linda Watson will trace through a town hall meeting in early 2018. On Wednesday, the transit agency revealed the names of the four candidates still in the running…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 19, 2017
Guadalupe plan no roadblock for Project Connect
The city’s newly published Guadalupe Corridor Plan unsurprisingly turned heads when the Austin Transportation Department published it on Tuesday. Any plan that recommends the elimination of on-street parking and conversion of general purpose lanes into transit-priority lanes can be reliably…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 8, 2017
Breakdowns plague MetroRapid fleet
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s highly heralded MetroRapid buses fell well short of the agency’s maintenance goals during Fiscal Year 2016-17. Each month, the fleet of 55 vehicles failed to reach the minimum goal of miles traveled between road calls.…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 7, 2017
Final Guadalupe plan hits the streets
At long last, the city’s shortest corridor has its plan. The Austin Transportation Department today released the much-anticipated Guadalupe Corridor Plan, a 66-page document that calls for a multimodal revolution along the Drag. As expected, the document recommends the conversion…
Roads • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 5, 2017
Capital Metro sticks with ultralow-ridership line in Manor
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is moving full speed ahead with its plans to prioritize frequency over geographic coverage, but the agency’s commitment to that principle isn’t total. The recent adoption of the contentious June 2018 service changes that eliminated…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 28, 2017
New to Austin's public transit system? A Cap Metro employee will ride the bus with you
Priscilla Jove, 19, sat cross-legged on a bench at a bus stop on the corner of West Oltorf Street and South Lamar Boulevard Saturday afternoon. A biology student at Austin Community College, Jove was headed out to study. She said…
Transit • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Nov 20, 2017
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Reporter's Notebook: Controversy
Out of order… It’s no secret – thanks to our reporting – that Capital Metro’s Customer Satisfaction Advisory Committee isn’t the most influential government-appointed group of citizens in town. But on Wednesday, the committee’s staff liaison let the Capital Metro…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Nov 20, 2017
Cap Metro plan up for a vote today
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors is set to vote today on a major overhaul of its bus system. If approved, the changes would take effect in June, changing more than half of all routes in the area.…
Transit • By Syeda Hasan • Nov 15, 2017
Park-and-ride plan rides again
Regional transportation planners have resurfaced an effort to build parking lots for suburban bus commuters that fell off the radar earlier this year. On Wednesday, the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority Board of Directors learned that the complicated funding strategy…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 13, 2017
Reporter's Notebook: What's wrong with _______
Sad CSAC… Exactly who is the “customer” in the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Customer Satisfaction Advisory Committee? That’s the existential question the body and the agency’s board of directors will grapple with in the coming months. As we reported recently,…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Nov 13, 2017
Capital Metro no longer counting on ambitious I-35 bus plan
The Texas Department of Transportation’s big new plans for Interstate 35 through Austin may be the end of the road for the local transit agency’s hopes for bus rapid transit on the highway. “We don’t know for sure at this…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 3, 2017
Capital Metro board treated to an earful at two public hearings
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board of directors sat through hours of public testimony on Wednesday, much of it critical of the agency’s proposed bus network redesign. In fact, the board scheduled two separate public hearings, one in the early…
