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CapMetro Rail is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) system that serves the Greater Austin area in Texas and is owned by CapMetro, Austin's primary public transportation provider. The Red Line is CapMetro's first and currently only rail line, and connects Downtown Austin with Austin's northwestern
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, officially stylized as CapMetro, is a public transportation provider located in Austin, Texas.It operates bus, paratransit services and a hybrid rail system known as CapMetro Rail in Austin and several suburbs in Travis and Williamson counties.
Highland station is a CapMetro Rail hybrid rail station in Austin, Texas.It is located in northeast Austin at the intersection of Airport Boulevard and Highland Mall Boulevard, just northwest of the I-35/Highway 290 interchange directly across the street from Highland Mall.
The new station will also eventually serve the Green Line, a proposed commuter rail line that will run from the downtown station to as far east as Elgin. [10] The permanent Downtown station opened on October 19, 2020, several months ahead of schedule and under budget. [6] With Project Connect, the Green Line will also terminate with the Red ...
The Blue Line corridor will include a transit pathway for a light rail or bus rapid transit line running on the west side of Downtown Austin to Austin–Bergstrom International Airport in southeast Austin. [5] The line was included as part of the Project Connect referendum during the 2020 election. [3] [6]
Leander station is a CapMetro Rail hybrid rail station and park and ride in Leander, Texas.The park and ride portion of it, designed by McKinney York Architects, was built in 2007 and is located on Highway 183 just north of FM 2243 and is the northern terminus of the Red Line. [2]
A commuter rail plan, under the authority of Capital Metro, is underway and scheduled for completion in 2008. The system — which will be built on pre-existing freight rail lines — will serve Downtown Austin, East Austin, Northwest Austin and Leander in the first phase. CapMetro, Austin, Texas, USA. It will be called Capital Metro Commuter Rail.
The station seen in 2012, with trains only serving the single side platform (note the empty rail bed at the bottom of frame) The station opened on March 22, 2010 [2] as a side platform and one track. The design of the platform allowed a second track on the unused side of the platform to be easily built due to the presence of platform-edge ...