The SacRT FY 2026 budget is separated into Operating Budget Summary (starting page 17) and Capital Budget Summary (starting page 26) sections. For those of you not familiar with budgets, the budget period covers July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, and is called FY (fiscal year) 2026. Operating means running the transit system, while … Continue reading SacRT FY 2026 operating budget revenue
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SacRT budget pieces
The SacRT Board will be considering the 2025-2026 preliminary budget on May 12, 2025. The nature of the budget documents is that they obscure rather than illuminate the information the public would like to know about the budget. The operating and capital budgets are far down the overall document, after a lot of information that … Continue reading SacRT budget pieces
SacRT Board 2025-05-12
The SacRT Board of Directors will meet Monday, May 12, 2025, starting at 4:00 PM. The in-person meeting is at 1102 Q Street, 4th Floor. The meeting may be viewed online via YouTube, but comments may only be made in-person and no later than 1:00 PM the day of the meeting, via email to Boardcomments@sacrt.com. … Continue reading SacRT Board 2025-05-12
RydeFreeRT status
The City of Sacramento FY 2024-2025 budget, to be adopted at the June 11 council meeting, includes $250K for the RydeFreeRT program. The original proposal from City Manager Howard Chan was to withdraw from the program completely, but Mayor Darrel Steinberg requested that $250K be retained for the free student fares. Councilmember Mai Vang might … Continue reading RydeFreeRT status
RydeFreeRT program details
For other posts on the RydeFreeRT program, see category RydeFree RT. SacRT has provided the program details table below for the RydeFreeRT program, which offers free transit for students in grades K-12. In the initial year, school districts provided part of the funding, but did not in later years. The City of Sacramento has proposed … Continue reading RydeFreeRT program details
background on RydeFreeRT
STAR remains concerned that if the City of Sacramento eliminates it contribution to the RydeFreeRT program, that other partners will too, and the program will fail. Some recent news articles have provide information about the program budget, though we have still not heard directly from SacRT about the budget. RydeFreeRT is perhaps the most successful … Continue reading background on RydeFreeRT
SacRT Bus Stop Improvement Plan
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
is SmartRide sustainable or well designed?
For all STAR posts on SmartRide, see the category ‘SacRT SmaRT Ride‘. The recent series of posts on SacRT SmartRide, the on-demand micro-transit service, was provoked by a December 19, 2023 article on Bloomberg City Lab, On-Demand Microtransit Can’t Escape This Big Problem, by David Zipper. The most recent (2019) post on micro-transit (which he calls flexible … Continue reading is SmartRide sustainable or well designed?
SacRT SmartRide costs
Note: SacRT refers to its on-demand micro-mobility service as both SmartRide and SmaRT Ride; I'm using SmartRide in these posts. SmartRide is still considered a pilot program, though it has been in operation for almost six years. Operations Expenses The SacRT board received an update on the SmartRide program in July 2023, including changes to … Continue reading SacRT SmartRide costs
Transit 101 Budget Workshop (2 of 2)
Transit 101 is sponsored by 350 Sacramento and is the educational arm of the transit community. Hosted by Glenda Marsh and Joann Fuller, the recent budget workshop provided information from SacRT staff and community discussion. To be notified of future workshops, email Glenda at marshmellow8562 at yahoo.com. These will also be posted here when we remember, … Continue reading Transit 101 Budget Workshop (2 of 2)
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 