CapMetro Rapid

CapMetro Rapid
CapMetro Rapid System Map as of January 2021
Overview
Owner	Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Locale	Austin, Texas, U.S.
Transit type	Bus rapid transit[1]
Number of lines	2 (3 planned)
Number of stations	50
Headquarters	Austin
Website	http://www.capmetro.org/metrorapid
Operation
Began operation	January 26, 2014
Line maps Legend Route 801 Tech Ridge I-35 IH 35 Chinatown Masterson Rundberg Fairfield North Lamar Transit Center US 183 Anderson Lane Crestview Brentwood Triangle Hyde Park MetroRapid 803 North to Domain 31st Street UT Dean Keeton UT West Mall Museum Capitol Austin History Center Republic Square MetroRapid 803 South to Westgate Colorado River Vic Mathias/Auditorium Shores Soco Oltorf Saint Edward's US 290 Ben White Expressway South Congress St. Elmo Little Texas Pleasant Hill Slaughter Southpark Meadows Route 803 Domain Braker/Stadium UT Research Campus US 183 Research Blvd Crossroads Ohlen Northcross Justin Allandale North Loop Sunshine Rosedale West 38th MetroRapid 801 North to Tech Ridge 31st Street UT Dean Keeton UT West Mall Museum Capitol Austin History Center Republic Square MetroRapid 801 South to Southpark Meadows Seaholm/Central Library Colorado River Barton Springs Lamar Square Oltorf West Bluebonnet Broken Spoke Brodie Oaks US 290 Ben White Expressway Westgate This diagram: view talk edit

CapMetro Rapid is a bus rapid transit^[2] service in Austin, Texas, owned and operated by the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro).^[3] It currently consists of two routes which run north-south served by stations designed by McKinney York Architects.

Service on the first route, MetroRapid North Lamar/South Congress (Route 801), began on January 26, 2014.^[4] It replaced existing CapMetro Bus Routes 1L/1M and the 101 Express, which traveled along the same corridor. (1M was renamed Route 1 Metric/South Congress, while a local version of the northernmost portion of former route 1L was created as Route 275. The Metric corridor is now served by 325.) Before the original Route 1 North Lamar/South Congress was split into 1L/1M in 2006, it was the busiest line in the CapMetro system and peaked at 10 minutes headways Monday through Friday, with wider headways on the weekends. The current Route 1 has wider headways, resulting in overcrowding buses.) Route 801 serves 29 stations between Tech Ridge in North Austin and Southpark Meadows via the University of Texas and Downtown Austin.

A second route, MetroRapid Burnet/South Lamar (Route 803), serves a total of 28 stations between The Domain and Westgate. It began operation during August 2014, but the original Burnet/Manchaca Route 3 remained in service at slightly reduced frequency.^[5] Two more MetroRapid lines are projected to start service in Spring 2025. The Pleasant Valley Line will run from Barbara Jordan to Vertex & Slaughter (with a future expansion to Goodnight Ranch Park & Ride) primarily along Pleasant Valley Road, and the Expo Center Line will run from Republic Square to Loyola & Decker (with a future expansion to Travis County Expo Center) primarily along Manor Road. No local routes will have their frequencies affected by their implementation.^[6]