Austin area riders who utilize the city's transportation services now have additional parking space at the Lakeline Station Park & Ride.

Capital Metro, Austin's transit agency, recently completed construction to provide 460 more parking spaces to the station located at Lakeline Boulevard and Lyndhurst Drive near Lakeline Mall. The station provides connection to the MetroRail passenger rail line and Capital Metro buses.

Three hundred of the new spaces are now open, and Mariette Hummel, Capital Metro communications specialist, said the remaining spaces should open next week. The addition brings the total number of parking spaces in the Lakeline station to 945.

Hummel said Capital Metro is also expecting to add spaces to the Howard Station Park & Ride on West Howard Lane in Austin in the fall.

The additional spaces come at a time of expansion throughout the regional transit authority, including the addition of two MetroRail trains that were assembled Thursday and now will undergo 1,000 hours of testing.