SacRT's Bus Stop Improvement Plan was completed in February 2023, after considerable community outreach and research by partner Civic Thread. The plan did not cover all bus stops in the system (more than 3200), but focused on low-quality stops on routes in lower-income and communities of color. bus stop with no amenities, San Juan Ave … Continue reading SacRT Bus Stop Improvement Plan
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SacRT Board votes to reduce representation for Sac City and Sac County
Note: The table below, showing board members and voting percentage compared to population, was updated to include the City of Sacramento proposal by board member Rick Jennings, option 5. Though this proposal was described in the text, it was not included in the table. The city proposal chart, included in the board agenda item, is … Continue reading SacRT Board votes to reduce representation for Sac City and Sac County
Civic Thread plan for SacRT mobility hubs
Civic Thread has obtained a $550K grant from California Air Resources Board (CARB) for study of mobility hub locations for SacRT. The grant is under the FY 2022-2023 Planning and Capacity Building (Planning), Clean Mobility in Schools (CMIS), and the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project (STEP) program. For the grant awards announcement: Lead Applicant: WALKSacramento, dba … Continue reading Civic Thread plan for SacRT mobility hubs
SacRT Board 2024-02-26
The agenda for the SacRT Board of Directors meeting on Monday, February 26, 2024, has been posted. STAR recommends that the public attend board meetings from time to time. Except for rare occasions when a particularly controversial item comes up, meetings are usually poorly attended, so the board and staff often goes off in their … Continue reading SacRT Board 2024-02-26
STAR opposes SacRT board voting proposal
The upcoming February 26, 2024 SacRT board meeting has agenda item 7.2 on board composition and voting. Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) opposes the motion because it locks in the current one seat-one vote voting mechanism, which STAR believes is flawed. All three options maintain this pattern. STAR believes that: SacRT board voting should … Continue reading STAR opposes SacRT board voting proposal
Broadway bus stops #3
We have added a column for sidewalk width at bus stops to the bus stop table, below, and created a map of stops between 5th Street and 18th Street, at end. The reason for collecting sidewalk width is to determine if the sidewalk space is already sufficient for bus stop amenities, such as benches, shelter, … Continue reading Broadway bus stops #3
Broadway bus stops #2
More detail on each bus stop has been compiled and added to the table in the previous post. The 'shared b/b' column indicates the width of the shared bus stop and bike lane at these stops. The area will be painted with dashed green bike lane markings. You may need to scroll right to view … Continue reading Broadway bus stops #2
Broadway bus stops
The Broadway Complete Streets project affects SacRT bus service, Route 51 Stockton/Broadway, and Route 11 Natomas/Land Park, along the section of Broadway between 3rd Street and 24th Street. An earlier post talked about the effects on bus service: Broadway and Route 51, but this one is specifically about bus stops. At a single location within the … Continue reading Broadway bus stops
SacRT Route 33
SacRT's Route 33 Dos Rios has been much in the news recently. When the SacRT board rejected in November the Dos Rios Light Rail Station, which would serve Mirasol Village and other River District destinations, staff proposed an alternative, enhancing Route 33 to serve the neighborhood. In January, the board reversed the decision against the … Continue reading SacRT Route 33
SacRT GIS data
SacRT now makes available select GIS (Geographic Information Systems) datasets, as of November 2023. SacRT has long offered gtfs (General Transit Feed Specification) data, which STAR uses to create various route and stop maps in ArcGIS. The newly available datasets at GIS and KML Data Portal include: SacRT bus routes SacRT bus stops SacRT light … Continue reading SacRT GIS data
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 