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Downtown leaders eye busing changes to manage traffic growth
Downtown Austin leaders are hoping that proposed changes in downtown routes and frequency for Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus service will increase the number of employers in the city’s core willing to offer alternative transportation plans for their employees in…
Transportation • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 30, 2017
Reporter's Notebook: Vows, complaints and questions
Not half bad… The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board of directors has been challenged to walk its talk. At last Tuesday’s work session, activist Zenobia Joseph took aim at the agency’s proposed bus network redesign and the claims that it…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 30, 2017
Vacancies, lack of interest put Capital Metro's customer advisory committees in the hot seat
The two committees intended to provide user feedback to the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board of directors could be cruising toward a makeover. At Monday’s monthly board meeting, Chair Wade Cooper and Council Member Ann Kitchen expressed concerns about vacancies…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 27, 2017
Capital Metro board hears about proposed changes to proposed changes
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is making adjustments to a long-planned massive overhaul of its fixed-route bus network just weeks ahead of a scheduled vote on the sweeping changes by the board of directors. During an extended work session on…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 25, 2017
Urban Transportation Commission reacts to Capital Metro route changes
In September, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority informed the Austin public that there would be a major restructuring of citywide bus lines to kick-start the Connections 2025 transit plan. To elaborate on the exact changes, on Oct. 10, Caitlin D’Alton,…
Transit • By Jessi Devenyns • Oct 17, 2017
Capital Metro's newest board member Travillion talks transit
The newest member of the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors on Tuesday expressed his concern for transit-dependent residents who have been pushed out of Central Austin, a sentiment that could spell trouble ahead for the transit agency’s planned…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 12, 2017
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Capital Metro board approves new budget
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority will cruise through its next fiscal year with a budget of $419 million. The agency’s board of directors approved that budget with a unanimous vote – minus an absent Board Member Terry Mitchell – during…
Budget • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 2, 2017
Updated: Racially tinged comments spark controversy for Capital Metro's vice chair
Update: Beverly Silas, vice chair of the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority board of directors told the Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday morning that she is resigning. “I most humbly apologize to the community, to you the Travis County Commissioners…
Austin • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 28, 2017
Capital Metro takes its bus network realignment to the riders
The largest overhaul of Austin’s bus network in recent memory is about to go before the court of public opinion. Next week, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority will hold three feedback sessions to hear residents’ opinions on proposed service changes…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 20, 2017
Capital Metro: No stopgap plan for fill-in-the-gap stops
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is taking a slow approach to the eight pairs of stations destined to fill in key gaps along its two MetroRapid routes. “The long story short is we expect to have them in service by…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 15, 2017
One small trail for North Austin, one giant loop for the whole city
Last year, Mayor Steve Adler declared in his State of the City address that great cities do big things, a message that the Shoal Creek Conservancy apparently took to heart. On Wednesday evening at a community workshop in Central Austin,…
Bicycles • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 15, 2017
Group keeps gondola hopes alive
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s firm disinterest in aerial gondolas is not discouraging one group from working toward a vision of cable car transit in Austin. John McCready of Look Up Austin told the Austin Monitor last week that he…
