Tag: cost

Truxel Bridge with light rail

Our previous post SacCity Truxel Bridge meeting estimated a width of the Truxel Bridge with light rail and walking and bicycling facilities at 57 feet. Looking back to the Green Line to the Airport Transitional Analysis Report (2010-11), it includes the graphic below showing the preferred bridge cross-section that would initially have only one light rail … Continue reading Truxel Bridge with light rail →

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? →