Sacramento, CA:
What is the status of the Green Line light rail extension to the airport?
Reply: The Green Line light rail extension is a project that requires a significant increase in local funding to support construction and operation of this project. With respect to its current status, we are just completing the environmental review so that it will be eligible for Federal and State funding when SacRT has the local funding in place to advance the project overall.
Sacramento, CA:
What is the status of the Green Line Light Rail extension up to Natomas?
Reply: The Green Line light rail extension is a project that requires a significant increase in local funding to support construction and operation of this project. With respect to its current status, we are just completing the environmental review so that it will be eligible for Federal and State funding when SacRT has the local funding in place to advance the project overall.
Sacramento, CA:
What is the status of the Green Line Light Rail extension to Natomas?
Reply: The Green Line light rail extension is a project that requires a significant increase in local funding to support construction and operation of this project. With respect to its current status, we are just completing the environmental review so that it will be eligible for Federal and State funding when SacRT has the local funding in place to advance the project overall.
CA:
Are we live
Reply: Yes!
Sacramento, CA:
Why is there no bus service on Power Inn (one of the busiest streets in Sac) from Gerber the Gold Line Light Rail station.
Reply: Route 65 does serve Power Inn from 14th Ave to Elder Creek, although it is unserved elsewhere. There's not always a direct correlation between streets with a lot of traffic and streets where there's a lot of transit demand. Power Inn tends to be mostly an industrial corridor, so there are not a lot of residents or destinations that transit riders would go to along the majority of the corridor. The other issue with an industrial corridor such as this is that the streets and sidewalks tend to be unsupportive to pedestrians, so transit riders would likely feel unsafe or at least uncomfortable getting to and from the bus stop. We happen to run on part of Power Inn today primarily as a means to get from one place to another, not because there's much ridership along Power Inn itself. Consequently, the service we run there does transport some people, but it is not a particularly popular or well-used transit route. Compare Power Inn to Stockton Blvd, where there are a lot more retail destinations and transit buses get a lot more seat turnover.
Sacramento, CA:
Why does Bus 54 not run on the weekend? There is a very large population of Seniors that live in the Veranda Apts, who depend solely on public transportation as they cannot drive.
Reply: We have limited resources so we typically run only where there's a strong market for mass transportation--large volumes of people making regular trips on heavy travel patterns. Senior apartments do not tend to generate a lot of ridership for transit, and we have not seen heavy ridership to/from the Verandas apartments on weekdays, so it would be hard to justify adding weekend service. Route 54 tends to carry a lot of students elsewhere on the route, which makes it reasonably popular on weekdays, but demand is much lower on weekends.
Sacramento, CA:
Hi. On Sept 7th, I asked about the Connect Card reader that had been missing from the Watt/Manlove station for a few weeks. The Reply was that RT was waiting for repaired devises to be returned. Now it's been 2 months plus a few weeks and still the reader hasn't been replaced. The Connect Card system seems too new to be having problems getting the readers repaired in a reasonable amount of time. Can you provide a new estimate for when the reader will be replaced?
Thanks.
Reply: The short answer is that it will be replaced by Monday afternoon. The longer response is that we have had delays from the vendor in quickly repairing and returning damaged equipment. We are working with the vendor to improve their response time in the future.
Sacramento, CA:
Whatever happened to your smart ride downtown? ISn't it supposed to be in operation already?
Reply: You are correct, our initial thought was that we would have SmaRT ride in operation in the Downtown area by about now. Unfortunately, the buses that we need to operate the service have been delayed and our new timeframe is early next year, January or February at the latest.
Rancho Cordova, CA:
Hello, I work for a church that has volunteered every winter to take in homeless people and SacRT has done a wonderful job transporting the homeless to and from our church. Will you be providing this service again this winter?
Reply: This is a service that is negotiated every year based upon Sacramento County's plan for assiting the homeless during the winter months. It always seems to come together in November and we have not worked out the details for this years service yet for the upcoming winter months.
CA:
I’m unable to see more questions what’s up?
Reply: Just a light month for questions, everything has been working properly.
