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2:54 so basically, it has to be bus or light rail, in your stupid view. I'm done with this video.

London has a similar system internally in LHR. It goes from the parking lot to the terminal in five minutes. I think this would be a great idea. Some of you guys are just "railfans" as opposed to being reasonable and practical. 🙂

Your TOD comments are interesting. I grew up in Marin during the 1940s and 50s. We thought of transit as an extension of automobiles. Like "Park and Ride." In thinking about TOD I now realize why CalTrain works well. The towns grew up around railroad stations. We had the same thing in Marin with the NWP electrics. If they had just stayed a little longer into WWII we might just still have them.

Watt I-80 west is the worst offender, because the only way to walk out of that station is BY FIRST WALKING TO ROSEVILLE ROAD OR WATT-I80 STATIONS! All three stations are parts of the same park and ride lot and I hate it so much it keeps me up at night

So cool to see this! Thanks!!

I love that I found RMTransit: Bay Area edition. Having moved from the bay recently I still have this weird urge to keep tabs on urban developments as it seems to be one of the few places in the country building transit. Great job on videos brother keep plowing ahead

I opened this for the Watt I-80 reaction, did not disappoint

Regarding Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District board of directors were holding out for a second crossing to Marin County. Even though the proposed design of the BART rail cars meant they would be light enough to run on a second deck on the Golden Gate Bridge the board discounted this. That isolated Marin and they had to back out of the BART district. Funny thing is that the BART cars were built light enough to have been put on the bridge. So you see another instance of how political shenanigans have given us a fragmented transit system in the Bay Area.

Steel Plaza track three and four take to the Penn station. The only thing that’s useful for those tracks are construction since it’s a detour.

How does a Californian not know that Jorge is pronounced Hor-hay not Geor-Jay? So weird.

From my memory, Watt/I-80 wasn't supposed to be a final stop,but continue East to Hillsdale Boulevard, etc, eventually having a terminus like Watt I-80 station in Loomis,CA. From what I remember, it was paused due to funding and right of way conflicts. Just North of Watt Avenue is a major interstate junction. The right side ends on Auburn Boulevard but was originally planned to plow through(the highway)Carmichael to connect with the 50/South Sunrise BLVD interchange. The funding, NIMBY, etc, it fell through, and the right of away beyond that is Federal. It is the terminus of the I-80 FEDERAL interstate and thus why there's like 16 lanes to Madison BLVD. The I-80 corridor didn't look like it does today, but at the time of RT being built, it was being built the way it is today. It attempted its right of way requests through the I-80 corridor, but from my understanding, it was squashed due to funding and the fed saying no.

I use the gold line to get to and from work way up in placerville! The little el dorado transit bus has its last stop at the iron point station. Then i take the gold line to the mather field stop, and then the 21 bus to the stop closest to my house! It's a long ride but thats what books and music are for, rad to see you covering my local transit!

TBH even tho sac has horrible TOD rn, It has sooooo much potential and lots of greenfield development potential aswell.

My home town has grown so much!! I remember when RT first opened. Sac back then didn't have a lot to do or see so me and the friends would always ride the trains, hop off, kick it at different stations and get back on to another.catch the 1 back home or to Sunrise mall at the end of the night. Watt/I-80 has always smelled like piss lol! The reason for the ice cream names near Alkali is there was the Crystal ice cream and milk factory next to Global Mills. They had a window you could stand and watch them make stuff. Thanks for the video!

Because someone owns that land and they prob want to make money off it

The other pedestrian walkway if you will is on the southern end of the I80 and Watt Ave station it could be accessed from Grand Ave. but recently the city closed down that part of the road because to many people are illegally dumping trash it curves behind the Pape forklift equipment place. The city of Sacramento have neglected that area for many years.

4:33 The Sheriff’s Work Project Yard 😂 if you know you know lol- Thats the only reason I ever used the Roseville Road Lightrail Station 🙏🏽

They’ve been trying to redevelop the watt x business 80 area for decades. Still a ghetto trash hole full of day zombies a lot lizards. Maybe now that prop 36 passed there’s a fighting chance things will get better around there.

Morrison Creek has a homeless community. It's spread out An older homeless Hmong woman living there was found growing marijuana to get cash....

Used to ride the train for years. Marconi to downtown Sac. Don't miss it at all. Retirement is coming soon.

Unfortunately I have to use the Roseville station, I 80 and watt station is horrible.

Thank you for this report. SacRT is a hidden gem. I have been commuting from Elk Grove to Folsom by bicycle and light rail for about 10 years. Service in 2024 has improved dramatically in terms of on-time performance, clean trains and transit agent presence. The new low-floor Gold Line trains are nice but the old trains are better for bikes because they have hooks for hanging bikes. Shout-out to the E-Tran express bus service from downtown Sacramento to Elk Grove that integrates well with SacRT.

The extension to SJ Diridon is overdue and will be awesome when done. Will definitely increase ridership.

Nice! General construction related comment: I wonder when/if there will be a backlash against using so much wood for multi family houses? Sure, USA seems to be great when it comes to sprinkler systems and whatnot, so it might not be a big hazard to those living in the houses, but from my European perspective those multi floor multi family houses should really be built using concrete, in a way that a full fire in one unit won't harm the rest of the building. 9:30 Great that they plan on high density buildings next to the station. But it's weird that they plan on low density buildings just to the north, closer to the station, than the medium density buildings planned to the west of the high density buildings. Also they should really stop building cul-de-sacs in new areas. It's good enough that the local streets are a detour to the desired through roads. 10:00 I get that it's hard to add paths through peoples gardens, but in this case there is a cul-de-sac just to the right of the station, that seems to be fenced off. Just a few square feet of eminent domain would solve that.

you should get on bluesky, lots of urbanist/urbanist fans have migrated there

4:45 I worked security on these light rail stations wild shit goes on between dph and i80 you didn’t mention how that Roseville station is choked off by the homeless more then anything

Blue line be done 2027 for low floor trains

at dwight and laguna a rail station for ace train is to be built by 2026/2027.

needs to come down into elk grove, its right there at either cosumnes river college or cosumnes and franklin, just have ot come down bruceville or franklin.

Great that light rail will extend from Township 9 (Green Route) to Sacramento International Airport 🤗

You had me until the end...

TODGod is the smartest and best spoken Bellarmine graduate of all time by miles

I’m not sure if I’m picking up on a YIMBY bias towards large scale, corporate & institutional development of large sites near stations, as opposed to improving the SFH neighborhoods with incremental upzoning & mixed use intensification. The former is easier & more fun yet makes for weaker cities after the initial generation of flipping. The latter is filled with nimby’s but will be attractive to many older millennials. I don’t blame you for going all in on YIMBY TODs-especially in California, as a younger person, it’s hard not to get caught in the sledgehammer approach to growing unit numbers at any cost.

I’m not sure if I’m picking up on a YIMBY bias towards large scale, corporate & institutional development of large sites near stations, as opposed to improving the SFH neighborhoods with incremental upzoning & mixed use intensification. The former is easier & more fun yet makes for weaker cities after the initial generation of flipping. The latter is filled with nimby’s but will be attractive to many older millennials. I don’t blame you for going all in on YIMBY TODs-especially in California, as a younger person, it’s hard not to get caught in the sledgehammer approach to growing unit numbers at any cost.

subbed from youtube recommend after watching " These Two Cities Used to be the Same " from @NotJustBikes

Arden Del Paso is my go to station on the SacRT tram because it is what I need to get great food in the Arden area. Got to catch the 23 bus. Oh yes Watt I80 another station with an abandoned former VTA UTDC tram. That was my childhood just sitting there gathering rust.

Light Rail is totally worthless. It's not acceptable to most residents in the neighborhoods they live in. The main riders and bums and junkies who shit and piss on the seats.

Keep in mind, extensions were planned partly to satisfy people in eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties who had been paying sales taxes for decades for a system that did not serve them.

k street was lame in the 60s and still is. and so will sacramento always be. and it's probably one of the most poorly designed light rails on earth. fixing sacramento will forever be an exercise in putting lipstick on a pig it's an oppressive drab dead end once you're there and you go out and look across downtown from and overpass you'll feel the dread.

With any luck, Sacramento will be as popular as Seattle, Portland or Oakland. /sarc

SAC TOWN REPRESENT!! Haven’t see. The full video but hope you talk about the trolley car project they are trying to implement

The best thing for SacRT was the recent extension of the south blue line to CRC. As a student during the time it opened I was able to take full advantage of the Los rios 4 college system and being able to use LRT to go take classes at all four colleges as a broke college kid haha

The Roseville Rd to Watt/I-80 area -- aka Tri Stations Rd -- had a unique history, I think, being some sort of abandoned freeway project that would have used space from adjacent Roseville Rd (parallel to Union Pacific RR) and then interchange with I-80/Bus-80 within the median. As a result, all of Roseville Rd and Union Pacific is grade separated with massive bridges.... which would be a perfect corridor for light rail expansion to the eponymous suburb to the northeast. IMO, the Tri Stations should be kept as a park-and-ride spur and for local buses, but the mainline Blue track needs to reach Placer County.

VTA is an example of how not to design a transit system using political influence. Although the line passes close by the San Jose Airport the cabbies and limo drivers lobbied to keep it out. Also... It goes up North 1st street to nowhere instead of up El Camino Real.

I’m a Folsom resident, and this was an excellent video, but Glenn station actually has some pretty nice bike trails around it. In fact, the city of Folsom has a pretty big bike network if you look at it on the map! (We don’t talk about East Bidwell)

Center Parkway station is probably one of the most underrated stations in Sacramento. There are a lot of apartments and condos, and a high school near the station. There are not many businesses, but it serves the neighbourhood around the station very well.

The Green Line is being built as a transit line that serves the Natomas area, that just happens to end at the airport. The 13 stops between the airport and the downtown train station will make the Green Line an unpopular option for travelers who just want to get from the downtown train station to the airport in a reasonable amount of time. Hopefully the airport express shuttle bus will continue to run after the Green Line is completed.

6:32 Yes! Queen of Sheba is amazing!

If there's any dislikes in this video, they're most likely Kings fans 😂😂😂