From: statesman.com
By: Ben Wear // August 19, 2009
Capital Metro officials, still working to solve various issues with its commuter rail line, can’t yet say when the line will open.
When the line does open, agency officials said, some of the morning and afternoon runs on the 32-mile line between Leander and downtown Austin might start at stations further up the line rather than at the end points.
In the fourth monthly update since an eleventh-hour postponement of an announced March 30 opening date, Capital Metro said it had completed training engineers, completed adjustment to railroad crossing “safety equipment pending any new issues,” finished some track repairs at the U.S. 183 frontage road and Parmer Lane crossings and completed work on “signal preemption” technology meant to clear cars from places where the track is near a street traffic signal.
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