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2018 Austin City Limits Mobility Guide
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More stage time, less rage time
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There are more ways than ever to get to Austin City Limits, taking place Oct. 5-7 and 12-14 this year. With folks flocking to Zilker Park and no parking allowed there during ACL, planning ahead can make for a safer, smoother experience. This guide outlines the many options you have to get to and from the festival stage without getting behind the wheel of your personal vehicle.
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Click the image for a full-size map of lane closures, staging areas and more.
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- Official Festival Shuttle
- ACL shuttles operate from Republic Square on both weekends of the festival and will offer free rides to Zilker Park and the festival. Shuttle service begins at 10 a.m., and the final shuttle returns from the park at 11 p.m. each day of the festival.
- Pro tip: Take one of the mobility options below to Republic Square and let the shuttle driver take you the rest of the way!
- Capital Metro
- B-cycle
- Pick up a B-cycle from one of the dozens of stations around Austin and drop it off at the B-cycle station at Barton Springs Road and Sterzing Street. From there, it’s just a short walk to the festival entrance.
- Pedicabs
- Hail a pedicab downtown on your way to ACL or hop into one as you leave. The staging area is on the northeast corner of Barton Springs Road and Azie Morton Road, near the festival entrance.
- Dockless bicycles and scooters
- Grab the closest dockless bike or scooter and leave it at the designated drop-off area along Toomey Road. There will be limited secondary parking along Azie Morton Road. No dockless devices will be allowed on the trail or at the event entrance.
- Please note: These are drop-off areas only and the units will be picked up and dispersed throughout the service area to prevent congestion and improve safety as people leave ACL. Units will not be available at these drop-off locations at the end of the night.
- Personal bicycles
- Pedal on down to the festival. We’ll provide racks for you to lock up your personal bicycle in the same lots as the dockless bicycle and scooter drop-off locations – along Toomey Road, with limited secondary parking along Azie Morton Road. There will also be limited personal bicycle parking along Stratford Drive (no dockless devices).
- Transportation network companies and taxicabs
- Hail a ride and get picked up or dropped off at one of three zones along either Wallingwood Drive, Lee Barton Drive or Veterans Drive. There will also be a taxicab stand southeast of William Barton Drive.
If you do plan to drive in the area, please be aware that westbound Barton Springs, Toomey and Butler roads will be closed off to vehicular traffic from 9-11 p.m. every night of the festival.
Learn about how to catch a safe ride home, whenever and wherever, at AustinTexas.gov/GetHomeSafe.
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Attend today's South Lamar Corridor Meeting and share your input
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The City of Austin's Corridor Program Office and Transportation Department are working to improve mobility, safety, and connectivity along South Lamar Boulevard between Riverside Drive and US 290 as part of the Corridor Mobility Program. The South Lamar Boulevard corridor is part of the City Council-adopted Corridor Construction Program, to be funded in part by the 2016 Mobility Bond. The bond program dedicates $482 million for corridor improvements.
At this meeting, you can learn more about preliminary engineering work along the roadway, current corridor conditions and what's planned for construction on South Lamar. We’ll also collect input that will help refine the design of the improvements.
Spanish interpretation services will be available.
Learn more at AustinTexas.gov/SouthLamar.
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City of Austin hosting 2018 bond open houses
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The City of Austin is hosting ten open houses, one in each Council district, to share information about the 2018 bond and allow the community to ask any questions! Each open house will be a come-and-go format, so you can drop in anytime during the event.
If you’re unsure of which Council district you live or work in, please see this interactive map here: AustinTexas.gov/GIS/CouncilDistrictMap. Even if you missed a meeting in your district, you are welcome to attend any open house.
- Sept. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (District 6, CM Flannigan): Spicewood Springs Library
- Sept. 27, 6-8 p.m. (District 9, CM Tovo): City Hall
- Oct. 3, 4-6:30 p.m. (District 10, CM Alter): Old Quarry Library
- Oct. 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m. (District 2, CM Garza): Southeast Library
- Oct. 10, 6-8 p.m. (District 1, CM Houston): Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex
- Oct. 15, 4:30-6:30 p.m. (District 7, CM Pool): North Village Library
- Oct. 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m. (District 8, CM Troxclair): Circle C Community Center
- Oct. 20, 12–2 p.m. (District 4, CM Casar): Gus Garcia Recreation Center
- Oct. 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (District 5, CM Kitchen): Manchaca Road Library
- Oct. 25, 6-8 p.m. (District 3, CM Renteria): Montopolis Recreation Center.
Visit to AustinTexas.gov/2018Bond find a bond booklet, abbreviated bond one-pager, information about the development of the bond, and a tax calculator.
Interested in getting a 2018 Bond speaker for your next neighborhood association or community organization meeting? You can fill out a speaker request form.
If you have questions about the events or about the bond, you can call 512-974-2000 or email 2018Bond@AustinTexas.gov.
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Help us raise our standards: Take our substandard street surveys!
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Austin Transportation recently hosted four public open houses as part of the 2016 Mobility Bond for substandard streets. At the open houses, we collected community feedback on proposed safety and mobility improvements. If you couldn’t make it to an open house, all materials, including maps and display boards, are available on each project’s website alongside a survey about the draft recommendations.
Cooper Lane (Dittmar Road to Matthews Drive)
Latta Drive and Brush Country Road (William Cannon Drive to Tiffany Drive)
Davis Lane (Brodie Lane to West Gate Boulevard and Leo Street to Manchaca Road)
FM 1626 (Manchaca Road to I-35)
The 2016 Mobility Bond dedicates $11 million to substandard streets and capital renewal programs, including the creation of preliminary engineering reports for nine substandard streets.
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Join the October biking fun – form a team now!
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Biketober is a fun, free, team biking challenge. Take on the challenge with Love to Ride, a platform for getting social about biking and encouraging others to bike in Austin. Win awesome prizes from Love to Ride as a team of friends, family, and/or co-workers.
- What’s in it for you: Enjoy fun competition, set and track goals, see how many times and miles you ride, earn recognition, get social with photos and high-fives, and encourage others.
- To participate: Register online at LovetoRide.net/Austin, start or join a team of up to eight people, and ride and roll!
- To log rides: Connect to an app that logs rides automatically (Ride Report, Strava, MapMyRide or Endomondo), or log them yourself on the Love To Ride website or app.
Biketober is a team challenge event, powered by Love to Ride, using a model that has engaged over 300,000 people globally. The challenge is hosted by Austin Transportation to help people enjoy the fun and freedom of bicycling and gain transportation cycling confidence.
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Give feedback on Austin's bicycle signals by Friday
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Bicycle signals can be identified by a bicycle silhouette on the signal face.
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There are just a few days left to provide feedback on Austin's new bicycle signals by filling out a short survey online. The survey closes at the end of the day this Friday, Oct. 5, 2018.
Austin Transportation installed bicycle signal faces at 12 intersections in the Central Austin area last summer. By guiding bicycle traffic approaching signalized intersections, bicycle signal faces can increase safety and improve traffic operations for both bicyclists and motorists.
These bicycle signals are part of a collaborative research study between Austin Transportation and the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin. The study is measuring user compliance and safety on the road as well as public perception and knowledge regarding bicycle signals. A preliminary survey was released in January 2017 before the bicycle signals were installed. The purpose of the current survey is to gauge whether public perception and knowledge have changed since the installations.
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Check it out: Ford, Uber and Lyft agree to share data with cities through new SharedStreets platform
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Screenshot of the SharedStreets tool used to map curbside management in Seattle.
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The National Association of City Transportation Officials announced last week that Ford Motor Co., Uber and Lyft have signed on to a new public-private data platform called SharedStreets.
The goal is to "share data and collaborate with cities to ensure that the digital transportation revolution supports sustainable, inclusive mobility," NACTO stated in a press release. "The data sets pledged by the companies will provide the public and private sectors with new tools to manage curb space in order to reduce congestion and emissions that cause climate change; improve the efficiency of city streets by making it easier for everyone to get around; and save lives by preventing traffic crashes."
According to NACTO, the agreement includes:
- In partnership with Ford, developing a universal data standard for real-time curb demand and availability.
- In partnership with Uber, producing the first-ever freely available global data set of vehicle driving speeds.
- Lyft will join SharedStreets and Uber to produce a universal framework for sharing curbside pick-up/drop-off counts.
The partnership is the result of a collaboration with NACTO, the Open Transport Partnership and Bloomberg Philanthropies, the consortium behind the SharedStreets data platform. NACTO is an association of 62 major North American cities and ten transit agencies formed to exchange transportation ideas, insights, and practices and cooperatively approach national transportation issues. The City of Austin is a member of NACTO and Austin Transportation Director Robert Spillar is the NACTO Board Treasurer.
Read the full announcement.
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Come celebrate and reflect on this past PARK(ing) Day
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Join us for a follow-up gathering to discuss the successes of this past PARK(ing) Day! We will be talking about what worked, what needs improvement and your ideas for 2019. Join us for a debrief session over snacks and beverages.
Check out the photos from PARK(ing) Day on Flickr and Facebook. Thanks to all who participated and enjoyed the parklets!
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Coming up in this week's mobility calendar
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Smart Trips + HACA: National Night Out
Join Smart Trips and HACA as we take back the night! The Smart Trips Team will be at HACA on Salina during National Night Out to help residents get back on their bikes. We will be handing out resources for being safe and comfortable when biking through the city. We'll also be doing quick bike check-ups! This event is open to all members of the Austin community. Find more information on Eventbrite and Facebook.
Join Capital Metro and Austin Transportation for a community conversation! Capital Metro will be presenting their Project Connect Vision Plan. Austin Transportation will be joining the Project Connect team to share draft recommendations from the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan.
Public hearing for proposed street name change for Manchaca Road
City Council will conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance renaming "Manchaca Road" to "Menchaca Road" at their next meeting.
The Texas Department of Transportation is hosting a virtual open house on the Loop 360 and Westlake Drive intersection project through Oct. 5, 2018. The City of Austin is putting $46 million in 2016 Mobility Bond funding into the Loop 360 Program. The purpose of the virtual open house is to gather input on the Loop 360 Program with proposed improvements to the Westlake Drive intersection. Find more information about the event here.
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