Pickup by Capital Metro

Via Transportation Inc.

About this app

Capital Metro’s Pickup service provides curb-to-curb, on-demand transportation in the Austin metro area for the price of a bus ride! Connect to transit, shop, work, learn, and play. Enjoy all that your neighborhood has to offer. Where will Pickup take you?

Ratings and reviews

I've met good drivers through this app, but there are flaws. There have been way too many times where I've scheduled a ride thirty minutes in advance to get to my location on time without rush, but then the wait times for rides were abysmal. Like typically 40-60 minutes. Which is insane! Not to mention that some drivers will not follow the route, go off course, and the wait time would increase. Therefore making me wait longer and possibly late. The app is good sometimes. However it is annoying.

Easy on the budget if you're poor, but do not trust their vehicles to be anywhere close to the quoted time. They don't actually take their drivers out of rotation for breaks, so you may often find yourself sitting there waiting wondering when the van is going to actually move as you see the ride has been delayed by ten minutes or more.

The app works perfectly. This is such a handy service by Capital Metro. It only serves certain areas of Austin, but it definitely complements the bus system nicely. While the app is great and the best way to use the service, they have a phone option if you don't have the ability to get on a data network.