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transit is easy to use, flexible, and inexpensive. Check
out what CapMetro and CARTS, the Central Texas transit
providers, can offer you!
Capital
Metro serves more than 130,000 daily riders
from 4,000 stops all over Central Texas. So whether you're
going to the airport, commuting to work or making personal
trips around town, CapMetro can help. CapMetro offers many types of services including local radial
routes, limited and flyer routes, feeder routes, cross-town
routes, 'Dillo (or downtown free) routes, special routes,
University of Texas Shuttle routes, Apple Routes (AISD),
and express routes. For more information visit www.capmetro.org.
CapMetro
Park & Ride Locations: www.capmetro.org/riding/park_n_ride.asp
CARTS,
the Capital Area Rural Transportation System, delivers
transportation tailored specifically for each of the 123
communities it serves. Service frequency
in the various locales ranges from several times a day to
once a month. CARTS
has inter-modal transit facilities
that combine
a variety of transportation options including fixed route,
commuter vans, inter-city/ inter-state motor coach passenger
freight service, carpool, and taxi/intra-county,/ inter-city/local paratransit services. For more information
visit www.ridecarts.com.
Looking
into the future of Public Transportation in Central Texas...
All
Systems Go -
CapMetro's long-range transit plan, which includes the future
of the bus transit system, as well as urban commuter rail.
For more information visit allsystemsgo.capmetro.org
Austin-San
Antonio Commuter Rail District - Linking
the Austin-San Antonio corridor via commuter rail has been
under discussion for several years. It has always been
envisioned that the existing Union Pacific freight line could
be used as a shared corridor for passenger rail service in the
early years of commuter operation. For more information
visit www.asarail.org
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