City of Austin and CapMetro officials marked the completion of multimodal transit upgrades at 51st Street and Manor Road on Sept. 12, improvements aimed at enhancing safety and access for all travelers.

Marking a milestone

“When we're starting to work on projects like this with our partners, CapMetro, we start to think about what the impact these projects are going to have on people's lives,” said Jim Dale, the city’s Transportation and Public Works deputy director. “... We're thinking about the mom that's coming to take a bus to go into work at The University of Texas [at Austin], or grandpa who's walking on these new sidewalks to hop on the bus to go to a doctor's appointment.”

The project included two new MetroRapid bus stations under CapMetro’s Project Connect initiative,

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