From NACTO Transit Street Design Guide - Platform Height: Platform height affects ease of boarding; raised platforms enable easier, more accessible passenger boarding and alighting by decreasing step-down distance and gap between vehicle floor and platform. Level and near-level platform stops can also increase route efficiency, allowing vehicles to enter and exit stops more quickly. … Continue reading level boarding?
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SacRT Network Integration Plan
Update: The draft Network Integration Plan has been posted: https://www.sacrt.com/apps/draft-network-integration-plan-available-for-public-review-and-comment/. Also added to the end of this post are a diagram of the Gold Line in Folsom and Rancho Cordova, and a table of the four projects. The Glenn Passing Track will be the first change to come online, and a very important one because … Continue reading SacRT Network Integration Plan
What slows light rail?
Two issues most slow light rail in downtown: long dwell times for loading passengers at mini-high platforms and train car steps (Human Transit: Passenger-stop delay, Dwell due to boarding/alighting), and being stuck behind motor vehicles, particularly turning motor vehicles (Human Transit: Traffic delay, Congestion). Long dwell times, the length of time a transit vehicle spends … Continue reading What slows light rail?
SacRT light rail fleet replacement
Replacement of the SacRT light rail cars, which have high floors and steep steps, with low-floor/level-boarding cars has been a priority for STAR and many other transit supporters. We have a previous post, Low floor light rail cars, but until recently we didn't have any information on how much it would cost and when it … Continue reading SacRT light rail fleet replacement
Low floor light rail cars
One of the few good features of Measure B is that it would provide funds that Sacramento Regional Transit could use as a match for federal and state funds to replace its current fleet of high-floor rail cars with low-floor rail cars for level boarding. There isn't time at the moment to explore the benefits … Continue reading Low floor light rail cars
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 