This is a speculative idea, not in any way policy or position of STAR. What if we ran the core downtown light rail system as though it were a streetcar? The downtown area could have 5 to 10 minute headways (or 7.5 minute), making it like an effective streetcar system (which the current proposed streetcar/light … Continue reading light rail as streetcar?
Category: SacRT
bus stops open house
SacRT and Civic Thread are undertaking an outreach to gather community input on bus stop improvements. The first session is for North Sacramento, to be held September 1, 5:30PM, at Robertson Community Center, 3525 Norwood Ave. A flier is available. If this is your area, please participate! If not, keep your eye open for future … Continue reading bus stops open house
support AB 1919 free student transit
California Assembly Bill AB 1919 (Holden) is in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday, August 1, starting at 10:00AM. It would establish at pilot program offering grants to transit agencies and educational partners for free transit passes for students of those educational institutions. STAR supports this bill. It is unknown whether SacRT, which has a … Continue reading support AB 1919 free student transit
SacRT slow buses
Caltrans, through the CalITP (California Integrated Transit Project) has made Transit Speed Maps available, showing bus speed for many transit agencies, including SacRT. The data is from a single date, February 8, 2022, but is probably representative of weekdays. In the morning, several routes are listed as slow, but the most important are 51 Stockton/Broadway … Continue reading SacRT slow buses
Transit Center on bus operator crisis
Transit Center has published Bus Operators in Crisis: The Steady Deterioration of One of Transit’s Most Essential Jobs, and How Agencies Can Turn Things Around, as well as blog posts and tweets on the topic. The document offers a table of starting salaries for seven transit agencies, all of which are much larger than SacRT. … Continue reading Transit Center on bus operator crisis
SacRT light rail boarding solution
As described in a previous post, SacRT light rail will NOT be level boarding, SacRT is intending on created a low-floor with step-up railcar and platform system throughout the network. The floor of the new Siemens S700 railcars will be six inches above platform height, requiring riders to make a small step up to board. Riders … Continue reading SacRT light rail boarding solution
level boarding and Network Integration Plan
In 2020, the Capitol Corridor, SacRT, and the City of Sacramento received a TIRCP (Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program) grant of $3.9M for planning and construction at Sacramento Valley Station, connections between SacRT light rail and the Valley Rail stations in Sacramento, and a bus layover facility. The grant required a Network Integration Plan … Continue reading level boarding and Network Integration Plan
Phoenix Valley Metro Rail light rail boarding
This will be the last of the posts about other light rail systems (whew!) unless a reader has something to contribute. But look forward to a post about how SacRT might address its problem with not-level boarding. Valley Metro Rail operates a single light rail line in the Phoenix area. It uses low floor Shinki … Continue reading Phoenix Valley Metro Rail light rail boarding
Salt Lake City TRAX light rail boarding
The Salt Lake City TRAX light rail system, operated by the Utah Transit Authority, has three light rail lines (and one commuter rail line). The oldest Blue line uses high-floor Siemens SD-100 and SD-160 railcars. The newer Green and Red lines use Siemens S70 low-floor railcars and are entirely level boarding stations. TRAX highlights that … Continue reading Salt Lake City TRAX light rail boarding
Denver RTD light rail boarding
Continuing on a series of posts about light rail boarding in various cities that Sacramento area people may have experience with or interest in. Denver RTD (regional transit district) has an extensive light rail system which is low floor but not level boarding. The photos below is from denverurbanism.com. I apparently did not take any … Continue reading Denver RTD light rail boarding
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 