Tag: City of Sacramento

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 →

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 →

SacCity to kill RydeFree RT?

Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan has proposed in the 2024-2025 budget to 'eliminate the free fare transit program' (RydeFree RT), under Citywide Strategies on page 52. The Budget and Audit Committee, and Sacramento City Council, had their initial discussion yesterday of the staff proposal of the reductions necessary to balance the budget's $66M deficit. STAR … Continue reading SacCity to kill RydeFree RT? →

Truxel Bridge online community questionnaire

The City of Sacrament opened an online community questionnaire on the Truxel Bridge project. The video on the questionnaire page reiterates that the city is not seeking comments on the need for the bridge, but just the details of the alignment and cross-section. If you haven't, please read the city's Truxel Bridge Concept and Feasibility … Continue reading Truxel Bridge online community questionnaire →

Sac General Plan update supports transit

City of Sacramento is updating its general plan to 2040. Several changes to the draft have improved support for transit. Between guidance provided by city council for the General Plan update and the current draft, there was a swing to less progressive and impactful language in the General Plan, but with the latest draft, there … Continue reading Sac General Plan update supports transit →

comments on Sac CAAP

The City of Sacramento has released the preliminary draft (whatever that means) of the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. The adaptation chapter is missing, promised for later. The plan's transit section is in Chapter 6, Transportation section, Measure TR-2: Support Public Transit Improvements to Achieve 11% Public Transit Mode Share by 2030 and Maintain Through … Continue reading comments on Sac CAAP →

STAR letter on Sac City Transportation & Climate Workshop

STAR has sent a letter to Sacramento City Council, for consideration in the Transportation & Climate Workshop upcoming on February 8, 2022 (council meeting starts 5:00PM, this agenda item is 19). The letter is below and in pdf. STAR's comments are related to recommendation #7, which we introduced in Sacramento transit enhancement. The agenda item … Continue reading STAR letter on Sac City Transportation & Climate Workshop →

Sacramento transit enhancement

The City of Sacramento is holding a city council workshop on Tuesday, February 8, 5:00PM. The purpose of the workshop is to gather input to help the city realign its transportation policies and project with its climate change objectives (they are far, far from in alignment now). The workshop will focus on reducing VMT, not … Continue reading Sacramento transit enhancement →