If you live anywhere within the slumburbia of Sacramento, be prepared to drive your car, slick. Regional Transit is, more or less, eliminating weekend service.
If you have any intention of going to Midtown for a beer and a burrito, better get it down your throat by 8:15 PM before that last bus or light rail run, or you're either in for a good night of walking or a $62 cab ride.
Admittedly, in looking over RTs cuts to the 41 of 91 routes, not too much affects me...because I do have my own car, and indeed there are no cuts to light rail service during the weekday. But there are dozens of people who live along Franklin Blvd. whose only access to light rail or anywhere else is route 65, which currently only runs once an hour, and now, won't even run at all on Saturday.
Not only are choice riders like myself, people willing to use transit, increasingly unable to use transit, but also those most dependent on it.
This was a hard choice, for sure, but in this supposedly "greenest state in the nation," how we can effectively subsidize private cars six to one over transit is insane...insane if any of us truly intends on making a difference in our environment.
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