CapMetro to provide free rides all day on July 4th
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team
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AUSTIN, Texas - Capital Metro is offering free rides all day on July 4th.
CapMetro will operate its standard Sunday-level bus service for the holiday, with MetroRapid Routes 801 and 803 being the best option to travel downtown and Auditorium Shores. MetroBus Routes 1, 3, 7, 10, 20 and 30 will also serve the area.
The fireworks show will disrupt CapMetro service after 7 p.m. on July 4. The South 1st Street Bridge will be closed to all vehicle traffic, and the following routes will be on detour: 1, 3, 7, 10, 17, 20, 30, 801 and 803. Customers may board their bus at any CapMetro bus stop along the detoured route.
Metro Transit will make adjustments to 45 bus routes in Missouri and Illinois Monday, March 15, as part of a quarterly service change. These adjustments will increase service frequency for many MetroBus routes, including 10 routes returning to 15-minute weekday daytime service, and will create better MetroLink and MetroBus connections.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Metro made several changes to transit services over the last 12 months to “maintain safe operations while matching available resources to ridership needs,” operator Bi-State Development Agency said in a news release Monday.
With new safety measures in place, including innovations in vehicle cleaning and disinfecting, Metro said it is now able to safely resume pre-pandemic weekday service on most MetroBus routes in Missouri. Regular service was previously restored on Illinois MetroBus routes.