Public transportation in Folsom area

[wburg]

You are correct that just building a transportation network won't cause riders to appear...that isn't how San Francisco or LA were built either, in both cases the streetcar company was also a land company. They built the housing in conjunction with the transport. Land use policy has to work in conjunction with public transit policy.

For now, yes, we are kind of in a trap: as long as it's cheap to turn farmland into suburbs, and as long as we have cheap fuel, we can just keep growing out--although it makes cities harder and harder to maintain. The problem is caused by the cheap fuel and the suburbs, but the cities get the blame. It's a vicious cycle.

The problem comes when something runs out to a great degree--land, or fuel, or city money. Then the whole system breaks, and things get pretty ugly.

[LoLBird]

Your son will be able to drive by himself at 18. Using the transit would be a disaster. Your best bet is to give him your old car as a present. It would make his life 10 times better, considering gas is incredibly cheap right now

[MapleLeaf]

Originally Posted by LoLBird

Your son will be able to drive by himself at 18. Using the transit would be a disaster. Your best bet is to give him your old car as a present. It would make his life 10 times better, considering gas is incredibly cheap right now

Yes, after I read thread, came to the same conclusion....

[MapleLeaf]

1. How convinient and fast Light Train from Folsom to downtown Sacramento, especially in rush hours?
2. Does LT goes from Folsom to California State University, Sacramento and US DAvis?

[wburg]

Originally Posted by MapleLeaf

1. How convinient and fast Light Train from Folsom to downtown Sacramento, especially in rush hours?
2. Does LT goes from Folsom to California State University, Sacramento and US DAvis?

1. There is no express train yet, so getting from Folsom's Sutter Street station to downtown Sacramento takes about an hour. It stops running to Folsom at 7:00 PM. I take that train to work every day, it is very reliable.

2. The 65th Street light rail station is closest to Sacramento State, it is about a mile walk to campus. Several buses run from 65th Street to Sacramento State's transit center. Light rail does not run anywhere near UC Davis--Davis is in Yolo County, about 10 miles west of Sacramento. To get to UC Davis on public transit one would transfer from Light Rail at (most likely) 8th & K Street and catch Yolobus. I would allow at least two hours' transit time in either direction to take public transit from Folsom to UC Davis.

Sacramento Regional Transit District Home Page will give you full schedules and a system map.

[edwardius]

You might want to look at these schedules.

Timetable for Route LIGHT RAIL - GOLD LINE - LIGHT RAIL - GOLD LINE

Shuttle Service (http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/parking/transportation/campus_timetable.html - broken link)

[etozion]

Is there any public transportation in El Dorado Hills at all?

[NinaN]

There is a park and ride bus station in the EDH Town Center. I have never been on it, but I did talk to a client last week that takes the bus into downtown daily for work (and they were looking for $800K houses, so it wasn't b/c she cannot afford a car).

[wburg]

Originally Posted by etozion

Is there any public transportation in El Dorado Hills at all?

Technically, yes:

El Dorado County Transit Authority - Home

But it's not much to write home about. There is one transit stop, a park & ride lot in El Dorado Hills, but it looks like the only buses that stop there are a commuter shuttle that runs from Placerville to downtown Sacramento and stops in El Dorado Hills on the way, and the "Iron Point Connector" that runs from Placerville to Folsom, also stopping at the EDH park & ride lot. El Dorado Hills is a profoundly car-centric commuter suburb. Note that you pretty much have to have a car to use the bus in El Dorado County--to drive from your house to the park & ride lot.