page_title: Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority
section_title: Capital MetroBus
hierarchical_section_title: Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Capital MetroBus
caption_attribution_description: English: This picture that I have taken is the newer hybrid CapMetro buses.
context_page_description: The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, commonly referred to as Capital Metro, is a public transportation provider located in Austin, Texas. It operates bus, paratransit services and a commuter rail system known as the Capital MetroRail in Austin and several suburbs in Travis and Williamson counties.
  Voters approved the creation of Capital Metro in January 1985, agreeing to fund the organization with a one percent sales tax.
context_section_description: Capital Metro's fixed route bus service includes 83 standard routes and 14 high-frequency bus routes as of 2020. It has several categories of routes: Local Service, Flyer and Limited, Feeder, Crosstown, Special Services, Express and University of Texas Shuttles.  At the agency's inception, Capital Metro originally operated a series of "paired" route service where two different routes that pass through downtown are served by the same buses, allowing riders to transfer between certain routes without leaving the bus. Since 2008, this practice has been eliminated and after a number of route pair reassignments, the agency merged the paired routes under single route numbers (for example, the 1 North Lamar and 13 South Congress were originally paired as they were the two busiest routes in the system, but they have since been merged as 1 North Lamar/South Congress).  Meanwhile, most local routes carried two digits before Capital Metro assigned a third digit for routes that do not serve downtown in 2000 (for example, 25 Ohlen became 325). Flyer routes were renumbered altogether to match their local stop counterparts (for example, 65 Manchaca Flyer became 103), while express routes that operated during commute times only contained letters (for example, NEX Northeast Express was renamed 990 Manor/Elgin Express; but was originally 70 Northeast Express).
caption: Capital Metro MetroBus
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