{"id":98678,"date":"2025-12-23T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:42:12","slug":"capmetros-downtown-station-to-temporarily-close-for-austin-convention-center-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98678\/","title":{"rendered":"CapMetro&#8217;s downtown station to temporarily close for Austin Convention Center construction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/organization\/capmetro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CapMetro<\/a> will be temporarily closing its Downtown Station due to construction on the Austin Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The closure is set for Friday, Jan. 2 through Monday, Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">During the closure, construction crews will be relocating critical electrical and signal communications equipment used by the Downtown Station, says CapMetro.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Plaza Saltillo Station will serve as the end-of-line station during the closure. Riders will then be able to transfer to a dedicated bus that will transport them to and from Downtown Station.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">CapMetro Rail will not operate on New Year&#8217;s Day (Thursday, Jan. 1) due to the holiday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">CapMetro is encouraging its riders to allow for extra travel time during the closure and plan ahead with real-time service updates by:<\/p>\n<p> Signing up for CapMetro alertsDownloading the Transit AppCalling the Customer GO line at 512-474-1200 <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from CapMetro<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/organization\/capmetro\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Metro<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/downtown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; CapMetro will be temporarily closing its Downtown Station due to construction on the Austin Convention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,11331,993,223,1827,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-98678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-capmetro","12":"tag-downtown","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-organization","15":"tag-travis-county","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}