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C.K. McClatchy High School students, faculty and staff who ride light rail will experience four days of disrupted service at the beginning of the school year as construction continues at Sacramento Regional Transit stations to accommodate new low-floor vehicles.
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Service on the Blue Line will be suspended between Broadway and Fruitridge stations Aug. 11-15, beginning Monday, four days after the school year starts at the high school in Land Park.
On Monday, trains will pass through the Fourth Avenue/Wayne Hultgren and City College stations without stopping while construction work continues. Beginning Tuesday, trains will not operate through either station. Light rail service north of Broadway Station and south of Fruitridge Station will continue as usual.
Bus shuttles, known as a bus bridge, will operate between the four affected stations.
Regional Transit spokesperson Jessica Gonzalez said the agency previously recognized construction at the Fourth Avenue/Wayne Hultgren Station would overlap with C.K. McClatchy High School’s school year and worked to lessen the effects on students, faculty and staff. The initial plan would have closed the two light rail stations for two weeks during the school year, Gonzalez said, but RT worked with the contractor to shorten the closure by about one-third.
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RT has reached out to both the high school and the Sacramento City Unified School District about the station closures and created a flyer showing bus shuttle locations for students. The district is sharing the information through school communication channels, Gonzalez said. During the school week, additional transit staff will be stationed at shuttle stops to help students and other riders.
Riders should anticipate travel delays and plan accordingly, RT said.
For three weeks, construction crews will upgrade the Fourth Avenue/Wayne Hultgren and City College stations to accommodate the new S700 low-floor light rail vehicles. The new trains, which began operating on the Gold Line in fall 2024, allow passengers to board at station level and include buttons to deploy ramps for riders with mobility aids.
The construction schedule was based on constraints such as crew availability and the need to safely access track alongside the Union Pacific Railroad, Gonzalez said. Warmer weather also allows concrete to cure more quickly.
Gonzalez said more stations in the southern Blue Line corridor, which extends to Cosumnes River College, will close later this year as RT prepares the stations for the new trains to enter service in 2026.
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An SCUSD spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.