For an upcoming story for the paper, I took Julian on Austin's new MetroRail commuter train. It was free this first week, so everyone and their mom was riding, too. (Literally. There were way more kids and parents on the train than I expected.)
Julian is obsessed with all things transportation, so he was thrilled to ride the train up to Highland Mall. There are tons of problems with the train (no weekend or midday service, no benches at the stations), which I'll cover in the story, but all-in-all, we had a great time. Plus he got to play with one of these cardboard MetroRails while we had to wait for another train. (The first one of the afternoon leaving downtown was full 15 minutes before it was scheduled to leave the station.)
Julian is obsessed with all things transportation, so he was thrilled to ride the train up to Highland Mall. There are tons of problems with the train (no weekend or midday service, no benches at the stations), which I'll cover in the story, but all-in-all, we had a great time. Plus he got to play with one of these cardboard MetroRails while we had to wait for another train. (The first one of the afternoon leaving downtown was full 15 minutes before it was scheduled to leave the station.)
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