Tag: SacRT Board

SacRT board betrays Mirasol Village

The SacRT board decided on Monday to NOT move forward with the Dos Rios light rail station serving Mirasol Village and the neighborhood (see SacRT board to decide Dos Rios and Dos Rios Light Rail Station on SacRT Monday agenda). They did not slam the door to a future station, but might as well have. It is … Continue reading SacRT board betrays Mirasol Village →

SacRT board to decide Dos Rios

STAR urges everyone interested in the Dos Rios Light Rail Station to comment to the SacRT board for the Monday, November 13 board meeting. The meeting starts at 5:30PM. We guess that this agenda item will come up no later than 6:00PM, and will be the main topic of the evening. People may comment in … Continue reading SacRT board to decide Dos Rios →

are SacRT low floor rail cars ADA compliant?

At the May 22 SacRT board meeting, Dan Allison spoke for STAR during public comment on the issues in our status post: STAR Update, one of which was continuing concerns about the deployable ramps that are offered for access from the new platforms to the new cars. The difference is about six inches. Jeffery Tardaguila … Continue reading are SacRT low floor rail cars ADA compliant? →

SacRT board structure on the agenda again

Last year the SacRT board voted to change its board structure, primarily to allocate a second seat to Elk Grove, which has about double the population of the other smaller cities which have one member. But SacRT board structure is largely defined in Public Utilities Code (PUC), and legislation to change that code was not … Continue reading SacRT board structure on the agenda again →

SacRT board composition motion passes

At the SacRT board meeting on Monday night (2022-02-14), the following motion was adopted. The County of Sacramento will have an additional seat (four total) and the City of Elk Grove will have an additional seat (two total) on the SacRT Board of Directors.  Any member jurisdiction that would have alternates, the members of those … Continue reading SacRT board composition motion passes →

SacRT board composition meeting #2

The second meeting of the Ad Hoc Board Composition and Voting Structure Subcommittee was held Monday, January 31. I attended, but on a small device and with intermittent Internet connectivity, but caught what I could. There were no public comments. The agenda and presentation are here: Agenda: https://star-transit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sacrt_boardcomposition_2022-01-31_agenda.pdfPresentation: https://star-transit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sacrt_boardcomposition_2022-01-31-presentation.pdf Some good things happened, and some … Continue reading SacRT board composition meeting #2 →