RT Rider

I don't ride transit much. Technically I work from home. Then again, technically I'm also retired. None of that is by design. It just happened. So this morning I decided to take the No. 82 bus th...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/02/making-bus-transfers-work.html

From the General Manager's report to the board at Monday's meeting: CONNECT CARD EMPLOYEE SYSTEMS TEST Last week on February 18th, 19th and 20th, RT and SACOG employees tested the ConnectCard (ou...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/02/regional-transits-connect-card-testing.html

So today I gave The Kid my car and used my senior pass to take my local bus down to Wendy's on Watt for lunch. Made me feel sort of transitarian again. It was when I was waiting to get off the bu...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/02/will-smart-cards-make-people-want-to.html

Can't resist: The fastest way to reach your destination in a crowded city is usually public transportation, especially when traveling between boroughs or neighborhoods. It may smell and a few peo...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/02/celebrity-transportation.html

Walk Score, a valuable resource for identifying great places to live and work, has released its 2014 City & Neighborhood Ranking, which includes the ranking of transit service in 141 cities w...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/01/scoring-sacramento-transit-service.html

You can take this survey here but after you've taken it you can't review or discuss. So here are the questions. I've added some links to related content.  Tomorrow I'll offer some commentary...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-survey-of-sacramento-transit-needs.html

For years I've relied on Watch That Page to let me know when Regional Transit changes the content of its front page.  It is a free service and works well on pages such as RT's that don't off...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/01/with-friends-like-this.html

Tonight's "Management Notes" from Sacramento Regional Transit General Manager Mike Wiley includes these dry statistics (Agenda Item No. 6): RT’s farebox recovery ratio in the month of December ...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-graphic-illustration-of-rts-management.html

I have to sympathize with Sacramento Regional Transit's long-suffering general manager, Mike Wiley.  After all, what can you say when asked to comment on the first homicide anyone can r...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/01/crime-happens-even-on-train.html

Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a f...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/01/six-degrees-of-separation-on-bus.html

I need an outlet. Out of work since the start of the New Year and discouraged about prospects for finding full-time employment at age 62, I'm considering declaring an official end to  the jo...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2014/01/test-test-sound-check-test-one-two.html

"Yet some cities are in trouble: Sacramento’s second phase of its South Line light rail may not be funded because of a lack of adequate local commitment to public transportation, even though it...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2010/02/and-news-just-get-worse-and-worse.html

At 8:09 on the morning of July 30, last year, I sent this email:from John Hughesto CAD@sacrt.comdate Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:09 AMsubject Map of proposed change in No. 82 bus route I would like to...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2010/02/unfinished-business.html

When I stopped writing here, I promised several people I would alert them if I started writing somewhere else.I've reactivated a dormant blog -- ipsosacto.blogspot.com -- and converted it from a ...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/11/moving-on.html

When I failed to write a blog post last week about Sacramento Regional Transit's decision to raid its workers' comp self-insurance pool in order to avoid service cuts in 2010, I knew the end of t...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/08/irony-and-hypocrisy.html

Perhaps what I had to say had some influence. But the only thing going for my point is the desperate position the Sacramento Regional Transit District finds itself in.My topic was the pilot progr...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-free-parking-is-just-not-affordable.html

What's Sacramento Regional Transit to do? There's just no good news. That at least is the conclusion to be drawn from the agenda package for Monday's board of director's meeting.General Manger Mi...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/07/from-bad-to-worse-rt-just-cant-get.html

I suppose these things happen when you have been married for nearly 20 years. Sometimes you just miss the meaning of what you hear.The Wife walked up behind me while I was working in my office la...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/riding-shotgun-on-morning-commute.html

Here's a guest post from the wifeI meant to write the other day, about the driver of the 73 bus that picked me up on the way to Mather Mills Station one late afternoon last week. It was about 5:4...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/wanted-transit-operator-awards-and-cup.html

On Monday evening, General Manager Mike Wiley volunteered to skip his monthly Key Performance Report to make time for the crowds who wanted to rail against proposed fare hikes and service cuts. H...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/rt-key-performance-dismal.html

Sacramento Regional Transit's board of directors tinkered around the edges of a staff-proposed solution to the district's budget mess, but in the end accepted that fares had to be increased and s...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/squawks-and-tweets.html

Sacramento Regional Transit's board will be asked Monday to decide whether to adopt a larger fare increase than originally proposed last month in order to accept a smaller reduction in bus servic...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/balancing-rt-fares-vs-service-cuts.html

RT TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARING ON MONDAY, JUNE 22 Board of Directors Expected to Approve Fare Increases and Service Reductions Proposed for September 2009If you don't know what's coming, read the pres...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/comparing-futures.html

It's been awhile. It was nice. Well, it was a little scary on the way home, but, hey, as I told our friends, it's just something you sign up for when you become a transitarian.The wife and I made...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/second-saturday-on-bus.html

Sacramento has talent. There's no reason why someone here couldn't create a nifty music video singing the praises of Sacramento Regional Transit like this one created by fans of BART.Then again, ...

http://rtrider.blogspot.com/2009/06/rt-needs-music-video.html