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Tag Archives: Capital Metro
CTRMA agrees to help with MetroRail station relocation, if necessary
Austin’s toll road agency is volunteering to be a financial backstop for the city’s transit provider should a bid for federal dollars to relocate a train station run off the rails. On Wednesday the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority Board…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 29, 2018
City likely to help Cap Metro fund studies
City Council appears poised to move forward Thursday with approval of an amendment to its agreement with the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority that will help the agency fund preliminary engineering work and environmental analysis on what sorts of projects would…
City Council • By Jo Clifton • Jun 27, 2018
Capital Metro gears up for no-pilot shuttle pilot
Austin, the “Kitty Hawk of driverless cars,” will likely see autonomous shuttles ferrying passengers through downtown streets by the end of 2018. The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday revealed new details about a planned yearlong pilot program that will…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 26, 2018
Capital Metro picks up its customer service game
Austin’s transit agency is putting renewed emphasis on the customers who make up the bulk of its service. On Monday, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority staff revealed to the board of directors details about a new initiative dubbed the Bus Customer…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 25, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Gooooooooooooals
Different goals… Politics, as they say, is (are?) a full-contact sport. Unlike men’s soccer, which mostly has a bunch of grown men flopping around like children at the slightest breeze (women’s soccer, we’ll note, is far less lame). Nonetheless, Austin…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 25, 2018
Capital Metro sets its sights on the sun
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority this summer is waging a two-front offensive on one of the most dreaded enemies of Austin bus riders: the Texas sun. The agency recently rolled out a pair of demonstration projects aimed at dulling the…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 21, 2018
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Reporter's Notebook: Throwing side eye, catching rides
Side eye, or stink eye?… What exactly is the name given to the withering glances occasionally dished out by City Council Member Ora Houston toward her colleagues on the dais? Council Member Leslie Pool learned directly on Thursday during discussion…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 18, 2018
Cap Remap launch a success, despite a few wrinkles
Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Randy Clarke is hailing the rollout of the agency’s most significant bus network overhaul ever as a qualified success. In a statement sent out on Friday, Clarke hailed agency staff for what he said was…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 11, 2018
Local group launches effort to enhance statewide transit funding
The launch of a grass-roots campaign to expand transit funding across Texas kicked off in Austin Wednesday night with input from regional officials and activists, and, from the audience, some impromptu criticism of the local bus service. Dubbed One Thousand…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 8, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Don't speak
Once more, away from the breach… For decades, those who work with digital data have learned to encrypt it in defense against potential breaches. Unfortunately, according to Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy vice president of strategy, technology and markets, data protection…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 4, 2018
Commissioners Court goes for Green Line
The Travis County Commissioners Court gave the green light last week to advance a study of a potential commuter rail line extending from downtown Austin out to Manor and possibly Elgin. The court voted 3-2 to approve the financial consulting…
Transit • By Caleb Pritchard • May 29, 2018
Anxieties abound on the eve of Cap Remap
In its final meeting before a historic overhaul of Austin’s bus network, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors heard another blast of concerns from riders and stakeholders over potential service disruptions. A handful of speakers complained about the…
