Wanna bring the kids to the Thinkery, the St. John Library Branch or Bartholomew Pool? (They’ve got great water slides.) Capital Metro’s got a new service that’ll help you out with that.
This week, we launched a free ride-hailing bus service called Pickup that allows riders to arrange on-demand transit trips within the Mueller, Windsor Park and Coronado Hills neighborhoods or to Capital Plaza using a mobile app. (Not to mention, Wal-Mart, Reagan High School, and a bunch of other great places.) Because this is a pilot program, we’re only operating in a small section of the city for the timebeing. The service zone ranges from the intersection of Manor Rd. and Airport Blvd. to the I-35 access road north of Rutherford Ln.
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Train service will be affected in June when Capital Metro makes scheduled upgrades to the MetroRail Red Line on a bridge between Lakeline and Leander Stations. But don’t worry, Leanderites — Leandereans? Leanderthals? Leanderers? Leandermenandwomen? — we’ve got you covered whatever y’all call yourselves.
Growth happens. You can’t change that. What we need to do is to manage how Central Texas grows, direct where that growth takes place and ensure that everyone benefits from our growing region.
Like a Matryoshka doll designed to get you out of your car and onto two wheels, this month nests a special day inside a special week inside a special month. May is National Bike Month, next week is National Bike to Work Week and 
