Austin begins rail service

Shares track with freight

Jay Blazek Crossley, Mar 22, 10.

Austin’s Capital Metro began offering service on its Red Line, 32 miles of commuter rail between Leander and Downtown Austin. The service has a maximum potential daily boardings of 3,800 and is expected to serve about 1,000 commuters at its start, according to the Transport Politic.

Austin is already pursuing other forms of rapid transit that could have higher ridership, including two Bus Rapid Transit lines that is expected to receive federal funding this year and a proposed light rail system in Austin’s urban core and reaching out to the airport.

The City of Austin has been planning for years to encourage transit-oriented development along the Red line, including the mixed use new urbanist development at the site of the former Mueller airport.

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.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said:

It’s too bad that Austin transit planners failed to plan stations at locations where TODs have been built including the site at the former Mueller Airport.

Posted on Apr 20, 10 at 10:56 am

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said:

I have not heard great things about it from my Austin friends though… it’s more of a suburban commuter rail, as opposed to an urban light rail with stops at multiple places of interest like Houston’s. Houston’s just needs to be expanded now.

Posted on May 03, 10 at 10:40 am

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said:

Austin was not meant to become as big as it is today. Even though its the capital it just didnt need to become this big, now Houston and Dallas were meant to become big cities. Austin infastructior is having a hard time keeping up with the development. Mabey Austin could become the fist city with multi levels to go into buildings from certain high ways or tracks from the metro. And traffic in Austin is nothing compared to LA traffic with 7 lanes of highway. It takes most people about 2 hours to get home. Austin traffic is not that bad.

Posted on May 11, 11 at 10:55 am

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