Earlier this week Sacramento RT introduced low floor light rail vehicles in Green and Gold lines (Sacramento Valley to Iron Point). This transition replaces aging equipment with new vehicles offering better accessibility, but it required raising light rail platforms, originally built at track level. The construction necessitated temporary station closures and bus bridges.

Riders with disabilities can now board the new low-floor light rail cars using a short ramp (by pressing a blue wheelchair button) from the main platform, rather than relying on a mini-high platform at the front with the assistance of a light rail operator. For now, the Gold Line will have a mix of low-floor and high-floor cars. When the double-track construction in Folsom is complete in October, low-floor cars will serve the entire Gold Line.

The Blue Line is undergoing construction to modify its platforms, so only high-floor cars will provide service.

Similar systems in Salt Lake City and San Diego operate a mix of low-floor and high-floor cars in their light rail fleets, as they purchased different generations of high-floor cars over many years, which will be gradually phased out and replaced by low floor cars.