Sacramento Regional Transit District

The city of Sacramento has received a 2026 Beacon Leadership Award for SACADAPT.

A transportation planning project developed with Sacramento Regional Transit, the plan looks at how extreme weather, flooding, and severe storms could affect Sacramento streets, sidewalks, and bike routes, as well as public transportation.

It also identifies vulnerable infrastructure and recommends where future improvements may be needed.

Community input played a major role.

Welcome to Next Stop SacRT, the podcast where we explore the people, programs, and stories shaping public transit in the Sacramento region.

I'm your host, Gregg Fishman.

In this episode, we're going to look at how SacRT plans for new bus routes and how we try to make sure our current routes are as efficient and effective as possible.

With so much new housing being built and demographic changes happening in terms of where people live in Sacramento County and where they need to go, this is a rapidly evolving situation for SacRT to try to keep up with.

With limited funds, we're not able to offer service everywhere it's needed, so we face a lot of difficult choices.

Our guest today is Senior Manager of Service Planning for SACRT, James Drake.