{"id":1615,"date":"2007-03-08T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/03\/08\/sxsw-public-transportation-in-austin\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:29:30","slug":"sxsw-public-transportation-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/sxsw-public-transportation-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW: Public Transportation in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all you out-of-towners coming to Austin from cities where the public transportation system is widespread, you&#8217;re in for a shock. Texans love their cars. That being said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capmetro.org\">Capital Metro<\/a> is doing several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capmetro.org\/news\/news_detail.asp?id=1803\">things<\/a> that are useful for <a href=\"http:\/\/2007.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a> attendees without cars, so I thought I&#8217;d pass them along.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ride from the airport to the convention center or your hotel for just 50 cents on the Airport Flyer.\n<li>Save your cab cash for popcorn and beverages by taking Route 3 to SXSW film theaters.\n<li>Park &amp; Ride free to the Free Dew Concerts at Auditorium Shores March 15 &#8211; 17.\n<li>$1 day passes are available for purchase on board buses and provide unlimited use of trips for an entire day.\n<li>Ride the free Dillo service. The `Dillos operate north to south between 23rd Street and Oltorf Road, and east to west from near MoPac at Lake Austin Boulevard to Pleasant Valley Road.<\/ul>\n<p>SXSW Baby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxswbaby.com\/index.php\/site\/google_transit_for_sxsw\/\">points out<\/a> that Capital Metro has <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/music-movies-mayhem-and-metro.html\">become part of the Google Transit Trip Planner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also heard on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kut.org\">KUT<\/a> this morning about a new service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dadnab.com\">Dadnab<\/a> that lets you text your location and get the nearest bus that will take you to your destination.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you can text &#8220;5th &amp; lavaca to barton springs &amp; kinney&#8221; to austin [at] dadnab.com (You&#8217;d type it like an e-mail address with the at symbol and no spaces. I&#8217;m just trying to avoid them getting spammed because of this post.) and get back &#8220;W 5TH ST &amp; LAVACA ST to BARTON SPRINGS RD &amp; KINNEY AVE\/depart COLORADO &amp; 5TH at 02:00 PM\/29-SB\/arrive BARTON SPRINGS &amp; JESSIE at 02:08 PM&#8221;. Their site has more information on how to use the service. Pretty sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all you out-of-towners coming to Austin from cities where the public transportation system is widespread, you&#8217;re in for a shock. Texans love their cars. That being said, Capital Metro is doing several things that are useful for SXSW attendees without cars, so I thought I&#8217;d pass them along. Some of the highlights are: Ride <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/sxsw-public-transportation-in-austin\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-q3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}