Bus Routes
Capital Metro's fixed route bus service includes 49 metro routes and 8 Express routes as of 2008. 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 "paired" route service where two different routes, most of which lead into downtown are served by the same buses. Since 2000, this practice has been eliminated and after a number of route pair reassignments, the agency did away with this practice and merged the paired routes under a single route number. (An example of this was #1 North Lamar / #13 South Congress was named as such a paired route along the busiest bus corrdior in the system; it has merged as #1 North Lamar/South Congress, and later the #1L/#1M due to the respective branches on the outer edges of its trunk route.) Meanwhile, most local routes carried two digits before Capital Metro assigned a third digit for routes that do not serve downtown since 2000 (example: #25 Ohlen became #325). Flyer routes had their numbers renamed together to match their local stop counterparts (example: #65 Manchaca Flyer became #103), while express routes that operated during commute times only contained letters (example: #NEX Northeast Express was renamed #990 Manor/Elgin Express).
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