SacRT Mobility Advisory Council 2024-08-15

The SacRT Mobility Advisory Council (MAC) will meet Thursday, August 15, at 2:30 PM. The location is apparently still the 1400 29th Street former administrative offices location. The meeting may be observed via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89729643927. It is not clear whether public comment can be made via Zoom, or only in person.

Agenda item 6, Old Business, includes:

  1. Public Education Communication Plan for S700 Trains and In Person Customer Service Support Efforts During Launch (Jessica Gonzalez, Director, Marketing and Public Communications)
  2. Downtown Riverfront Streetcar Light Rail Project (Anthony Adams, Director, Planning)
  3. S700 LRV Update (Anthony DiCristofano, Assistant Vice President Operations, Vincent Beatty, Director Light Rail Operations, Michael Cormiae, Director, Light Rail Maintenance)

Documents that may be available for each of these items are NOT made available to the public except on request to Priscilla Vargas, pvargas@sacrt.com. It is unknown why the MAC does not follow standard agency procedures of posting documents as part of the agenda.

The MAC is the only public venue in which these items are being discussed. The details of the new light rail vehicles (Siemens S700), and MAC and community concerns about the design of the vehicles, are not being discussed at board meetings, so the MAC meetings are really the only chance for public input on the new rail cars. The Downtown Riverfront Streetcar has been on the board agenda, but just for delegation to the General Manager, and authorization of contracts, not for review of the project.

STAR has not posted on concerns about the new light rail cars, but will before Thursday.

The SacRT Mobility Advisory Council agendas and minutes are available at https://www.sacrt.com/sacramento-regional-transit-mobility-advisory-council/. The SacRT website has no search capability, so you won’t find these through search. The MAC is also not in the menu system, so you can’t find it that way. We recommend that you bookmark this page for future reference. In general, the way to find things on the SacRT website is to search outside the website with your choice of web search.

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