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Placer County Transit

operator of mass transportation in California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ7200309
Source-derived summary

Placer County Transit is the operator of mass transportation for western Placer County, California, excluding the city of Roseville, which has its own public transit system. In addition to six local routes, Placer County Transit also operates the Lincoln School Tripper in Lincoln, California, a bus supplement during school days, and the Placer Commuter Express, a commuter bus service between Downtown Sacramento and the Colfax Amtrak station. In addition to their fixed route service, Placer County Transit also operates Dial-a-ride services in local communities.

On July 1, 2015, Placer County Transit took over operations from Lincoln's fixed-route and Dial-a-ride bus network, Lincoln Transit.

Route list

All of Placer County Transit's routes operate Monday-Saturday, with the exceptions of Route 40, Placer Commuter Express (which run weekdays only) and Lincoln School Tripper (which runs on school days). There is no service on Sundays and holidays.

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“Placer County Transit” enters the record as operator of mass transportation in California. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Placer, County and Transit can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Placer, County and Transit.
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This entry incorporates text from Placer County Transit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.