The City of Elk Grove has a webpage on the Blue Line/Bus Rapid Transit Implementation Plan, mentioned in a prior post Blue Line or BRT to Elk Grove. The webpage has more information about the project, including an overview, schedule and map. The map, shown below, indicates the likely alignment and possible station locations for light … Continue reading more on Blue Line/BRT to Elk Grove
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Blue Line or BRT to Elk Grove
From the SacRT website, Connecting Communities: SacRT Transit Projects and Initiatives page: “Blue Line Light Rail Extension and/or Bus Rapid Transit SacRT, in partnership with the City of Elk Grove, received a Caltrans Climate Adaptation grant for $470,000 to further plan and conceptual design for extending the Blue Line light rail and/or bus rapid transit … Continue reading Blue Line or BRT to Elk Grove
SacRT receives more funds for Dos Rios
SacRT was awarded funds from a USDOT RAISE grant towards construction of the Dos Rios Light Rail Station on the Blue Line, which will serve Mirasol Village and other developments in the area. The project includes not only the station itself but realignment of tracks to the station location. The $9.6M grant was summarized as: … Continue reading SacRT receives more funds for Dos Rios
let’s be careful about TOD
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a great concept. Place the development where it can benefit from transit service rather than being in a transit desert, remote from functional transit. I (Dan Allison) have been re-reading/reading Walkable City by Jeff Speck. Step 4: Let Transit Work (page 139 of the 10th anniversary edition) has a section … Continue reading let’s be careful about TOD
SacRT light rail weekday boardings
The two table below show the average weekday boardings for the light rail Blue Line and Gold Line, in March 2021. The data is from the SacRT 'Monthly' Quarterly Ridership Report for June 2021, The tables are sorted by boardings. This is the last report for which SacRT included such data in its reports, so … Continue reading SacRT light rail weekday boardings
light rail as streetcar?
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?
light rail or bus?
We have provided a series of posts on potential light rail extensions and infill (see links below), and a post on SacRT's High Capacity Bus Service Study. The implication of our focus on light rail is that we think light rail is a great solution in many cases. The implication of SacRT's study is that … Continue reading light rail or bus?
parking at light rail stations
SacRT provides parking at several light rail stations, charging a dollar per day. Streetsblog is just starting the annual "It’s Parking Madness Time — Send Us Your Parking Disasters!" contest, this year with a focus on excess parking at transit stations. So we looked into the parking capacity at various SacRT light rail stations. We compared … Continue reading parking at light rail stations
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 