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Sacramento Regional Transit Overview

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Address:   1400 29th St, Sacramento, CA 95812

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The Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) is an award-winning transit provider that serves the capital region and surrounding cities. SacRT operates more than 80 bus routes, uses and maintains 43 miles of light rail with 52 light rail stations, and also provides ADA paratransit service across a 400-square mile service area throughout Sacramento County.  SacRT serves the following cities: 

  • Sacramento
  • Citrus Heights
  • Ranch Cordova
  • Folsom 
  • Elk Grove

The district also runs SmartRT Ride, which offers on-demand ride services to the following areas: 

  • Arden
  • Carmichael
  • Citrus Heights
  • Downtown-Midtown-East Sacramento
  • Franklin-South Sacramento
  • Gerber-Calvine
  • North Sacramento 
  • Rancho Cordova

Annual ridership was approximately 21 million passengers in 2019. Weekday light rail ridership averages about 40,000 while weekday bus ridership averages approximately 37,000 passengers per day.

SacRT runs almost continuously. Buses and light rail trains operate every single day, with transportation options running from before dawn and into the late hours of the night. This transportation system provides ride support for thousands of Sacramentans, enabling them to travel to work, school, and everywhere else they need to go.

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01/09/2025
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Sacramento Regional Transit begins 15-minute interval trains at all Folsom Gold Line light rail stations Monday, Jan. 6, staff said. Those include Hazel Ave., Iron Point, Glenn/Holderness and Historic Folsom stations.

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12/26/2024
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Folsom Light Rail and countywide buses will be free to youth during the holiday season, Sacramento Regional Transit announced.

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12/04/2024
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The Sacramento Regional Transit District was recently selected as a Round 1 Grantee of the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program by the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.

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12/04/2024
The SmaRT Ride on-demand transportation service offered by Sacramento Regional Transit will be discontinued at the end of December. Read on to learn what will be replacing it.