The March meeting of the SacRT Mobility Advisory Council (MAC) will be Thursday, March 20, 2025, starting at 2:30 PM, in the SacRT Auditorium at 1102 Q Street (near 13th Street light rail station). STAR encourages the public to watch and/or attend these meetings. Topics come up at the MAC that do not come up … Continue reading SacRT Mobility Advisory Council 2025-03-20
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SacRT Comprehensive Operational Analysis
SacRT is undertaking a Comprehensive Operational Analysis to update the Short Range Transportation Plan (SRTP) 2022-04, and the Long Range Transportation Plan (2009) which is long out of date. Nelson-Nygard was selected as a contractor to support staff in carrying out the analysis and creating the new documents. The analysis is expected to take one … Continue reading SacRT Comprehensive Operational Analysis
SacRT Board 2025-03-10
The SacRT Board of Directors next meeting is this coming Monday, March 10. The meetings are held at Q Street Auditorium , 1102 Q Street, 4th Floor, Suite 4600, Sacramento, CA, starting at 4:00 PM. The location is a block away from the 13th Street light rail station, served by Gold, Blue, and Green lines. … Continue reading SacRT Board 2025-03-10
SacRT falls short on Folsom 15-minute service
SacRT has announced on their website (Folsom Light Rail Service Schedule Update) and in an email that only some Gold Line to Folsom service will be on the 15-minute frequency that was promised by the the passing track at Glenn/Robert G. Holderness station. This project was initially referred to as 'double-tracking to Folsom', though it … Continue reading SacRT falls short on Folsom 15-minute service
Truxel Bridge: what’s next
The Sacramento City Council approved the staff recommendations on the Truxel Bridge project at the Tuesday, February 18 meeting. The meeting lasted over three hours, with the only agenda item being the Truxel Bridge Concept and Feasibility Study. Most speakers were against the inclusion of private motor vehicles on the bridge, and the Sacramento Active … Continue reading Truxel Bridge: what’s next
Stockton Blvd BRT
The City of Sacramento has entered into an agreement with SacRT and Sacramento County for the 'Stockton Boulevard Multimodal Partnership and Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Project'. Agenda item 12 on the Sacramento City Council agenda for 2025-02-25 is on the consent agenda and is not expected to be controversial, but the item includes text about … Continue reading Stockton Blvd BRT
SacRT Mobility Advisory Council 2025-02-20
The agenda for this meeting was posted late, about noon today, but is now available on the SacRT Mobility Advisory Council webpage, and here. Comments may be made in-person, or via Zoom. Staff reports and slide presentations are not made available as part of the agenda, but may be requested. Call to Order Introduction of … Continue reading SacRT Mobility Advisory Council 2025-02-20
SacRT Flex
We wrote about the transition from SacRT SmartRide to the new Flex program, but haven't posted since the new program went into effect. Flex is considerably different from SmartRide. SmartRide was an attempt to serve all possible riders, but required a subsidy per rider of about $47 which was not sustainable. Flex serves riders who … Continue reading SacRT Flex
SacRT apps
SacRT announced about two years ago that they would be consolidating their apps into one. Hasn't happened. SacRT BusTracker: The new app has a rating of 1.8/5 on the iOS AppStore. This sort of score usually indicates an app with major flaws, or that doesn't work at all. The app does work, at least for … Continue reading SacRT apps
SacRT/Sac bus stop enforcement
SacRT and City of Sacramento are starting a bus stop enforcement program, against people who park in or block bus stops. Bus stop blocking is a serious safety issue for riders, and operators. Either the bus must stop away from the curb, or the stop must be skipped. This is inconvenient, for sure, but also … Continue reading SacRT/Sac bus stop enforcement
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 