The City of Sacramento is part way through a master planning process for Sacramento Valley Station (the Amtrak station). The outcome of the plan is critical for transit success in the county and region, with the station being the most important in Northern California and seventh busiest in the country. A great design could set transit up for success, and a poor design could kill connectivity in the region, so it is critical that STAR, other organizations, and individuals participate in the planning process.
The city is hosting a pop-up working at the station on Friday, August 25, 4:30 to 6:30. It is also offering a virtual community workshop from now through August 30, at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SVSWorkshop. We encourage you to participate in one or both.
The plan will deal with not just light rail, but SacRT buses, Amtrak thruway buses, and perhaps even Greyhound buses. Bicyclist access to the station has long been difficult, and unsafe for the average bicyclist, and the new design could either solve these issues or make them worse. Though many people will come to the station on transit and bicycles, pedestrians must be accommodated and welcomed, as they are not currently. All this connectivity may be squeezed into the relatively small space labeled Sacramento Rialyards Lot 40 on the diagram. Making the station a truly multi-modal hub will take some very creative, outside-the-box thinking.
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 
I took the online survey linked from the project page. I was frustratred by the lack of detail about transportation. The focus was on development, and activation amenities. I feel that the station area should first be designed to pull together all the transportation modes, and then the development and activation should be designed to fit around the transportation function. Transportation first! A question not addressed is how bicyclists will access the platforms.
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