Rapid Bus

Disclosure: Project Connect and Capital Metro have been supporters of KUT.Fifteen years from now, someone in Austin is going to get to say, "I told you…

Claudia Teran is late for class. She's waiting at the corner of 45th and Guadalupe streets for her bus. She's studying media at UT and the bus is her main…

Road construction that will result in bus-only lanes on Guadalupe and Lavaca streets could begin as soon as next week.The “transit priority lanes” are…

Capital Metro is reaching out to residents in the suburbs north of Austin for input on possible transit options for connecting them to Central Austin. Cap…

Capital Metro is holding a ceremonial groundbreaking for its MetroRapid service this morning. Construction on the rapid bus line’s first station started…

Effective immediately, Capital Metro vice-president and chief development officer Doug Allen has resigned.“Doug resigned on Tuesday,” Cap Metro…

Everyone loves to hate the bus, but in a piece for Salon.com, Will Doig argues that the bus is actually mass transit's best hope. He offers high- and low-tech solutions to help the oft-maligned bus system improve its image and its efficiency.

Capital Metro announced today that it has received $38 million from the Federal Transit Administration to help cover the cost of the MetroRapid…

As Austin considers an electric urban rail system to shuttle people around the central part of the city, Nashville, TN - a city of comparable size - is…