Transit-Only Lanes Coming to Downtown
Buses on some streets downtown may be going faster before long. Photo by Jeff Heimsath/KUT NewsAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The addition of rapid bus lines is back in the news in Austin. KUT’s Joy Diaz talked with the Austin American-Statesman’s Ben Wear about the city and Capital Metro’s moves to get things moving along on for about 18 blocks downtown in the next six months as a part of the larger project.
There’s going to be parking that goes away on the west side of Guadalupe, and it’ll become a transit-only lane, for buses in the beginning and potentially for urban rail if the public goes along with that. Similarly, on the outside lane of Lavaca going north.
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