The Re-Imagine Watt/I-80 planning effort has a new opportunity to comment. For the open house on January 10, the various ideas were organized into four options, A to D, which are now on the Virtual Open House page. At the bottom is a comment box and "which do you prefer" question. Note: This is not … Continue reading More Watt/I-80 opportunities
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Transit Center National Ridership Map
Transit Center has released its National Ridership Map and graphs. See the press release at http://transitcenter.org/2017/12/18/a-new-ridership-map-to-explore-transit-trends-locally, and find the data at https://transitcenter.github.io/ridership/. On the map page, select Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade from the upper right drop-down. The data is for the metropolitan statistical area (MSA), which is basically the SACOG region, not specifically for SacRT, though as the … Continue reading Transit Center National Ridership Map
Move Watt/I-80?
Today is the first Re-Imagine Watt/I-80 meeting, at the Arcade Library, 2443 Marconi Ave. We hope that you can attend. SacRT is considering improvements to the station that would improve safety and make the station easier to use. Also being considered, though not obvious on the Re-Imagine page, is dropping the Watt/I-80 station completely, and … Continue reading Move Watt/I-80?
Re-Imagine Watt/I-80
Users of the Blue Line light rail station at Watt/I-80, you know that there are significant problems with the station. The elevators are slow, almost always dirty or soaked with urine, and often broken down. The east elevator has been out of service for months, while SacRT provided a bus shuttle between the Watt Avenue … Continue reading Re-Imagine Watt/I-80
SVS master plan basics
The City of Sacramento's preliminary master plan documents for Sacramento Valley Station have some detail but are to varying degrees conceptual. Two diagrams from the city's presentation slides (there are several presentation documents but they have similar graphic content) are offered below. These diagrams are NOT the ones used in the survey. The Transit Network … Continue reading SVS master plan basics
Sacramento Valley Station transit
The City of Sacramento is part way through a master planning process for Sacramento Valley Station (the Amtrak station). The outcome of the plan is critical for transit success in the county and region, with the station being the most important in Northern California and seventh busiest in the country. A great design could set … Continue reading Sacramento Valley Station transit
State of good repair
State of good repair is a phrase used in many fields, but particularly in transit. It means that everything is on a functional state and not declining, that it is maintained when it needs maintenance, and replaced when it needs replacement. The Federal Transit Administration's State of Good Repair page says: Having well maintained, reliable … Continue reading State of good repair
Downtown Transit Circulation Plan
The second important source in considering light rail and transit alignments and facilities in downtown Sacramento is the Downtown Sacramento Transit Circulation and Facilities Plan Concept, published in 2012. Since this pre-dates the Grid 3.0 Plan mentioned yesterday, some of the ideas were included in the more recent plan, however, this document provides a great … Continue reading Downtown Transit Circulation Plan
LA Flyaway airport service
STAR has been exploring methods of providing service to Sacramento airport (SMF) that are less costly and might provide better service than the $2B plus Green Line to the Airport. So far we have focused on enhancing the existing Yolobus hourly service (42B) to 15-minute service with more hours of coverage. The Los Angeles FlyAway … Continue reading LA Flyaway airport service
transit to community colleges
STAR does not have a position on transit service to the community colleges, however, this is likely an issue that we will take up and have a position on in the future. We do have a position that all potential light rail extensions should be studied in unison to determine the best investment for ridership … Continue reading transit to community colleges
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 