the RT operates a big light rail system and copulative bus company in the Sacramento front yard, covering 418 square miles.

Bus service
A RT body operates Lxxx bus routes, as of 2005, with service between 5:00 the.m. & 11:30 p.m. daily. Frequencies range between each 15 & 60 proceedings.

Light rail
the RT operates a Thirty.Leash-mile lightly rail formulas, sustaining 2 lines, 42 stations, & 76 vehicles (Siemens Duewag U2A vehicles & additional modern CAF vehicles). There are 76 vehicles in the entire fleet. Lines on the rules work from either 4:30 the.m. to 1:00 the.m. daily, by owning service each Xv minutes in the day and each Half-hour when asleep.

Watt/I-80-Downtown-Meadowview Line
A 1st line, which opened around 1987, was an 18.Terzetto-mile route between a northeast, a downtown core, & a east. It was built at the numbers of $176 million USD (1987), including the prices of vehicles & maintenance & storage facilities. Great deal of a line, while it was number 1 built, was only-tracked, though improvements on top the 1990s allowed much of the original models to become double-tracked. the line was principally built utilizing a railroad best-of-way, coupled sustaining apply of structures of an abandoned thruway plan. The limited total of the route diarrhea within streets, in the main in downtown Sacramento.

Amazingly, the line was a profits beyond anyone's thoughts that farther expansions opened. The Ii.Leash-mile extension to the Mather Field/Mills station opened around 1998. Inside June 2004, a farther extension from either Mather Field/Mills to Sunrise was opened.

In September 26, 2003, the South Line opened for Six.Leash miles between the 16th Street station on the Watt/I-80-Downtown-Mather Field/Mills line & the station at Meadowview Road to the south prevent, which is the foremost phase of a plotted yearn Xi.Deuce-mile line to Elk Grove. Great deal of the extension follows the railroad perfect-of-way. After it opened, Vii fresh blocks were added to the rules. Resulting a June 2005 reconfiguration of a lightly line, a South Line merged inside by having a Watt We-80/Downtown line(formerly section of the last Watt/I-80-Downtown-Sunrise line)profits combining the old line using the just released.

Downtown-Sunrise Folsom Line
Within June 2005, ensuing a reconfiguration of a lightly rail models, the Sunrise-Downtown Line (Gold Line) was created(it at one time continued beyond the downtown St. Rose of Lima Park station to Watt/I-80); it diarrhea from either St.Rose/K-Street to Sunrise using an extensiin to the Folsom vicinity that opened on October 15, 2005.

Other projects
Every bit mentioned above, there exists an extension to Folsom which might tie by owning the Cipher.Vii-mile extension within downtown Sacramento to the Amtrak station, known as a Sacramento Valley Station. More first plans as well include a lightly line from either business district, via the front yard of Natomas, to the Sacramento International Airport, which will open later. An aforethought extension to Roseville, once a top priority, has been on the backburner for years. Extensions to Davis and other locations come shown on the Twenty-season project.

Paratransit
To meet a requirements of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the RT established the Paratransit service in 1993, which is a door-to-door service for the handicapped.