\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe month of April means a series of bus bridges and service line disruptions along Sacramento Regional Transit’s Blue Line as crews are working on the agency’s largest capital improvement project in its 53-year history.The work is part of the ongoing Light Rail Modernization project to improve platforms to accommodate the agency’s new low-floor trains which will enhance accessibility, reliability and system capacity, according to a new release.What does this mean for light rail riders?During construction periods, shuttle buses will operate between impacted stations along the Blue Line.Bus bridge and platform construction schedule in April:April 13: Bus bridge between Watt\/I80 & Roseville Road station. (No shuttle bus service at Watt\/I80 West stationApril 14 to April 16: Bus bridge between Roseville Road & Swanston stations. Trains will not stop at Marconi\/Arcade station.April 17: Bus bridge from Roseville Road and Swanston stations. April 18: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Alkali Flat stationsApril 20 to April 23: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Swanton stations. Trains will not stop at Marconi\/Arcade station.April 24: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Swanston stationsApril 25: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Swanston station”Between now and 2027, SacRT will be modifying 15 Blue Line stations from Watt\/I80 to Meadowview stations and 8th & O Station in downtown Sacramento,” read a news release.Multiple variables, including weather, could alter the construction schedule.For more information on the closures and service disruptions, click here.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The month of April means a series of bus bridges and service line disruptions along Sacramento Regional Transit’s Blue Line as crews are working on the agency’s largest capital improvement project in its 53-year history.<\/p>\n
The work is part of the ongoing Light Rail Modernization project to improve platforms to accommodate the agency’s new low-floor trains which will enhance accessibility, reliability and system capacity, according to a new release.<\/p>\n
What does this mean for light rail riders?<\/p>\n
During construction periods, shuttle buses will operate between impacted stations along the Blue Line.<\/p>\n
Bus bridge and platform construction schedule in April:<\/p>\n
April 13: Bus bridge between Watt\/I80 & Roseville Road station. (No shuttle bus service at Watt\/I80 West stationApril 14 to April 16: Bus bridge between Roseville Road & Swanston stations. Trains will not stop at Marconi\/Arcade station.April 17: Bus bridge from Roseville Road and Swanston stations. April 18: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Alkali Flat stationsApril 20 to April 23: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Swanton stations. Trains will not stop at Marconi\/Arcade station.April 24: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Swanston stationsApril 25: Bus bridge Roseville Road & Swanston station\t<\/p>\n
“Between now and 2027, SacRT will be modifying 15 Blue Line stations from Watt\/I80 to Meadowview stations and 8th & O Station in downtown Sacramento,” read a news release.<\/p>\n
Multiple variables, including weather, could alter the construction schedule.<\/p>\n
For more information on the closures and service disruptions, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The month of April means a series of bus bridges and service line disruptions along Sacramento Regional Transit’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[20675,110933,56529,67117,110925,110926,110930,110934,93677,110936,110931,110929,121,123,122,4963,110935,4959,110932,110927,76403,22238,110928],"class_list":{"0":"post-248627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-april","9":"tag-arcade-station","10":"tag-blue-line","11":"tag-bus-bridge","12":"tag-bus-bridges","13":"tag-capital-project","14":"tag-i80","15":"tag-large-capital-project","16":"tag-marconi","17":"tag-meadowview-station","18":"tag-platform-construction-schedule","19":"tag-roseville-road-station","20":"tag-sacramento","21":"tag-sacramento-headlines","22":"tag-sacramento-news","23":"tag-sacramento-regional-transit","24":"tag-sacramento-regional-transit-history","25":"tag-sacrt","26":"tag-service-line-disruption","27":"tag-services-disruptions","28":"tag-shuttle-bus","29":"tag-train","30":"tag-watt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}