TX: Shorter Headways Creating Some Bunching for Capital Metro
March 5, 2018
Ever since the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority began operating its two MetroRapid routes at 10-minute intervals during daytime hours, the agency has seen an uptick in an unwelcome phenomenon of buses of the same line running back to back.
Source Austin Monitor
Ever since the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority began operating its two MetroRapid routes at 10-minute intervals during daytime hours, the agency has seen an uptick in an unwelcome phenomenon of buses of the same line running back to back.
The bunching, which has been reported on social media, had made it onto the radar of City Council Member Delia Garza who, in her position as a Capital Metro board member, asked about it during the board’s quarterly operations briefing at last Monday’s meeting.
Despite the increased bunching, the two MetroRapid lines – the No. 801 and the No. 803 – operated on time 83.8 percent of the time in the first quarter, just beating out the agency’s goal of 83 percent.
