Howard station (Capital MetroRail)

Howard is a Capital MetroRail commuter rail station in Austin, Texas. It is located in Northwest Austin at the corner of Howard Lane and MoPac Expressway. Howard Station includes a Park & Ride with 200 spaces.[2] Howard station was originally built with one platform and one track, as seen in the picture below. The design of the platform allows a second track on the unused side of the platform to be easily built due to the presence of platform-edge tactile tiles and track ballast having been constructed with the original station. In 2019, the second track was built on the previously unused side of the platform to allow trains traveling in opposing directions to pass one another at the station, similar to the design of MLK Junior Station. This transformed the existing one-track, side platform station into a two-track, island platform station.

Howard
Location	3710 Howard Lane Austin, TX
Owned by	Capital Metro
Platforms	1 side platform (2010-2019) 1 island platform (2019-)
Connections	MetroBus 150, 243
Construction
Parking	200+ spaces
Bicycle facilities	No
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	March 22, 2010[1]
Services
Preceding station   Capital MetroRail   Following station Lakeline toward Leander Red Line Kramer toward Downtown