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SACRAMENTO
 California . USA

Sacramento Light Rail Map © Thomas B. Gray
 System

Light rail system:

- 61 km
- 49 stops:
street-level boarding and high-floor trains (short high platform section for stepfree access as in San Francisco Muni Metro)
- 36 Siemens-Duewag U2A cars (1987)
- 40 CAF cars (2002/03)

2 lines (rearranged in 2005):

Blue Line: Watt/I-80 - Meadowview
Gold Line: Downtown Loop - Folsom

1987: Watt/I-80 - Power Inn (29 km, then mostly single-track)
1990s: double-tracking of first line
1998: extension to Mather Field/Mills
2003: 16th Street - Meadowview (South Line 10 km)
2004: Mather Field - Sunrise
2005 (15 Oct): Sunrise - Folsom (12 km)
2006 (8 Dec):
Downtown Loop - Sacramento Valley Station (0.8 km)

 Links

Sacramento Regional Transit District (Official Website)

Lightrail.com

Extensive description with many photos at nysubway.org

LightrailNow.com

Sacramento RT on Wikipedia

Airport Line project

 

 


 

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