Sacramento Transit Riders Union (SacTRU) is sponsoring the SacRT Challenge this week. STAR supports this effort, and all efforts at getting public officials to better understand the challenges of operating transit in this region, and to support improvements and increased ridership through funding and ridership.
The press release from SacTRU is below.
SacTRU Transit Challenge
September 16-22, 2018
(Sacramento, CA) – The Sacramento Transit Riders Union (SacTRU) is inviting RT Board members and other elected officials around Sacramento to participate in a transit riding competition that challenges our community leaders to ride public transit for 1 week, September 16-22, 2018. Participants will record their rides on social media using #SacRTChallenge. We believe that best way for our community’s leaders to make informed choices is through firsthand experience of what riding on public transit in our community is like.
Similar to the SF Muni Challenge in 2015, this is an exciting opportunity to engage with the public and make transit fun!
We are challenging each board member of Sacramento Regional Transit, Sacramento City Council, Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, and the directors of SACOG and SacRT to ride public transit for 1 week this September.
We will be tracking points through photos that our community leaders post of themselves riding public transit on social media. Participants will get points by tagging themselves riding public transit to #SacRTChallenge on Facebook, Twitter, or through email. We will record their points daily on our tracker. Double points will be awarded for posts with constituents and triple points for posts with photos by constituents.
SacTRU will announce the winner at the September 24th SacRT Board Meeting and present the winner with an award. #SacRTChallenge
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 