Sacramento Regional Transit just held a public hearing to get comments about their system. I read an announcement too late! Oh well, I'm making it the first item of my experiences in Sacramento; and that says how important public transportation is for me!
Fy, Fy, Sacramemto Regional Transit!
1. A lot of bus lines are Monday-Friday only.
2. Especially on weekends, it's important that the light rail train stops have a public restroom. Trains, even on weekends, run often. Nearly every light rail station has a guard on duty. Some stations have a restroom (locked) for transit personnel. On the weekends, it's not uncommon for a passenger to wait for a bus for over an hour. And when that bus is a connector from some other bus or light rail, the passenger may not be able to find a restroom for nearly 2 hours! Come on, that's intolerable and cruel treatment of passengers!
3. Train schedules are not necessarily indicative of when the train will arrive--sometimes ahead of the printed schedule, sometimes behind, sometimes way out of sync!
4. When there's an event, downtown say, there's no way to know what the bus route is that you are intending to board! They simply don't have any sign in any bus stop or light right station announcing schedule re-routing, temporary changes. For example, last Sunday was Mother's Day. I had no idea they changed the terminus of the 88 bus downtown. All us passengers were waiting at the normal terminus only to discover by word of mouth that it wasn't coming there--where we were waiting. It was terminating blocks away and then turning around and going out! No concern for the passengers! I wasted hours that one day alone!
The first bus 88 on Sundays is at half-past 8. Last Sunday, Mother's Day, is was 25 minutes late; and this Sunday, 5/17, it was 1/2 hour late! I barely made it to church on time! Does Sacto RT care
any, if buses are on time?
5. There's no evening or night bus service, except say on bus 23 or 51. There's good light rail service, however. I live on routes 13 (Mon-Fri only to early evening) and 88 (earliest bus on weekends 8 o'clock something to 8 PM. something. It means I can't go downtown to entertainment unless I take a taxi home, if I ever could find one; or I just don't attend anything at a ballpark, downtown bar, or at the Community Theater. What kind of life is this? Even small city El Paso in Texas provides better bus service. And smaller still, Tahoe in Nevada does even better than El Paso, by providing all night service to the casinos.
In short, a trip on public transportation in Sacramento can turn into a real-live nightmare!!
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