VIVA STREETS! is coming to Austin on Sunday, May 20, from 10AM - 3PM where you can enjoy 2 miles of car-free Austin streets that become your playground to bike, play, walk & roll as you please! So join us there! We will have some of Capital Metro’s healthiest minds out there, ready to give [...]
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Ride CapMetro to the 2012 VIVA STREETS! Festival
Posted in bikes, community, events, Uncategorized, wellness, tagged Capital Metro, community events, Downtown Austin, family, Family event, free event, VIVA STREETS! on May 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Arthur Murillo is “best bus operator in North America”
Posted in bus roadeo, Capital Metro news, events, Uncategorized, tagged bus roadeo, Capital Metro, capmetro, events, roadeo on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Capital Metro Bus Operator Arthur Murillo has been named the best bus operator in North America. He competed in the 2012 International Bus Roadeo in California this weekend and won 1st Place in the 35-foot bus competition. Congratulations Arthur! This makes Arthur a four-time winner of the International title, we are very proud to have a representative of [...]
Ride MetroRail to Pecan Street Festival May 5
Posted in community, events, Holiday events, MetroRail, Uncategorized, Web, tagged 1L/1M, 6th Street, Austin event, Austin festival, Capital Metro, community event, downtown, May 5, metrorail, Pecan Street Festival, special event service on April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why is the festival called Pecan Street Festival? Did you know 6th Street didn’t always have the same name? 6th Street used to be named Pecan Street! Whoa! I sure didn’t until know that until I checked out their page. But, now that I have your attention let’s blow your mind some more… MetroRail STARTING [...]
Ozone Season: What You Can Do
Posted in community, environment, sustainability, Uncategorized, tagged air pollution, Capital Metro, clean air force, earth day, environment, ozone on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Spring in Texas is in full bloom and although you might want to jump in the car and take some pictures with Bluebonnets on the side of the road, you should know Ozone Season has officially started and will stick around with us until late October. But, don’t let that get you down because there are [...]
New Tree Seedlings Planted Along North Austin Bus Routes
Posted in bus routes, community, events, tagged bus, bus stops, Capital Metro, capmetro, community, environment, shade, sustainability, sustainable neighborhoods, trees on March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Trees – they help sustain the environment, and if you’re one of our MetroBus riders, you love to see them at the bus stops. They look nice, give you shade and keep you cooler during the summer. And, now we’re one step closer to seeing them at every bus stop thanks to the partnership between Capital [...]
Manor Park & Ride Grand Opening this week
Posted in Capital Metro news, community, park n ride, tagged Capital Metro, commuting, Elgin, Manor on February 13, 2012 | 5 Comments »
We’re cutting the ribbon – literally – on another major milestone with the grand opening of the new Manor Park & Ride. Come on out to the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, and help us celebrate this fabulous new facility. Amid the backdrop of the storied Manor water tower (of Leonardo [...]
Resolve to Ride in 2012
Posted in Benefits of Transit, Uncategorized, tagged Capital Metro, carbon footprint, environment, money savings, new year resolutions on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Happy 2012! For many people, New Year’s is a time of reflection and introspection. There’s something about wrapping up a year and anticipating the next that just lends itself perfectly to resolutions and goal-setting. What went well in 2011? What do I want to do differently in 2012? If any of your resolutions for 2012 [...]
Plan your trip to ACL
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ACL, Austin, Capital Metro, special event service on September 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Each day this week, we’ve been entertained by Marketing Manager Cynthia Lucas’ 2011 ACL playlist, which has added some audio flair to the Marketing/PR office over here at Capital Metro headquarters. If you’ve ridden with us on the Austin City Limits Music Festival shuttle before, you know about Cynthia’s playlist that she creates each year [...]
Safety gone wild
Posted in safety, tagged Capital Metro, mohawk on September 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Capital Metro’s serious about safety, but things got a little silly this week when our safety manager James Hoskins showed up for morning pullout on Thursday with a bright blue Mohawk (technically, it was a faux hawk, but still…) to recognize the achievement of a safety milestone. Earlier in August, StarTran drivers (bus, MetroAccess sedan [...]
Rail Safety Day
Posted in Rail Safety, tagged Capital Metro, ILCAD, metrorail, rail safety on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In observance of International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD), Capital Metro is once again reminding you to be safe around railroad tracks. Motorists and pedestrians should ALWAYS expect a train along any railroad tracks and obey all warning signals and signs. ILCAD is being recognized in 40 countries worldwide today with the purpose of increasing [...]
CapMetroRail Twitter Updates
- Congress Avenue Mile, UT Commencent, and Viva Streets detours this weekend #constantcontact conta.cc/Kki11O 2 days ago
CapMetroNews Twitter Updates
- Join us tomorrow for @VivaStreetsATX a new festival where a car-free street becomes your playground! We’ll be there ^MA 9 hours ago
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