FAQs

Roseville Transit provides the following services. Call 774-5757 for more information and assistance in planning your trip.

• Local Service
• Dial-A-Ride
• Commuter

Transit fares vary depending upon the service and the status of each passenger. All fares are listed in the printed Roseville Transit Bus Services Guide and can be seen online.

View information on Roseville Transit services, including our schedules. If you need additional assistance to plan your trip to, from, or around Roseville using public transit, please call (916) or (530) 745-7560. You may also use the Google Transit trip planner on Roseville Transit's website, www.roseville.ca.us/transit.

Read more about how to read the transit schedules as well as boarding and connecting to other transit systems. For assistance, call Roseville Transit at (916) or (530) 745-7560, TDD: (888) 745-7885.

Friendly trained and screened volunteers with the Transit Ambassadors of South Placer County can help you learn how to use your local transit system. Find out more.

All Roseville Transit buses are equipped with front-mounted bike racks. Find out more information about using the bike racks.

Roseville Transit is not responsible for items left on the bus or at a bus stop. To check on your item call (916) 774-5293.

Traveling to Sierra College will require a transfer to Placer County Transit.

1. First, take Roseville Transit to one of the following Transfer Points:
   • Louis/Orlando Transfer Point (use either Route A, B, or R)
   • Galleria Transfer Point (use either Route A, B or M) 
2. From the Louis/Orlando Transfer Point the Placer County Transit display board on the bus should say "GALLERIA." This bus will take you to the Galleria Transfer Point and then to Sierra College.
   From the Galleria Transfer Point the Placer County Transit bus display board should say "SIERRA COLLEGE."
   If you are unsure if the bus is the right one, just as the driver. Placer County Transit will take you to Sierra College.
    
   Passengers may board Placer County Transit with Roseville Transit Local Daily or Monthly Passes. Or, Placer County Transit's fare can be paid when boarding.

Placer County Transit light rail to Auburn schedule

 

The Public Works - Alternative Transportation Division is responsible for evaluating requests to change existing transit services and adding new transit services. To submit either type of request, or to submit any suggestions you have to improve our transit services, you can contact us by:

• Calling us at (916) 774-5293;
• Visiting or writing us at 401 Vernon St., Roseville, CA, 95678;
• Sending us an e-mail at transportation@roseville.ca.us

Roseville Transit provides Local, Commuter and Dial-A-Ride bus service to more than 433,000 passengers a year. 

Transportation Development Act (TDA)
The Transportation Development Act (TDA) provides a major source of funding for public transportation, i.e. Roseville Transit. One source of TDA funds is the Local Transportation Fund (LTF), which came into existence in 1972. The LTF revenues typically account for more than 80% of all revenues for Roseville Transit. The second source of TDA revenues is the State Transit Assistance Fund (STA), which came into existence in 1980. STA funds account for approximately 2% of all revenues for Roseville Transit.

Both LTF and STA funds are for the development and support of public transportation needs that exist in California, and more specifically, in Roseville. LTF revenues are derived from a 1/4 cent of the 7.25 percent retail sales tax collected statewide. The 1/4 cent sales tax is returned by the State Franchise Tax Board to Placer County, who holds the funds until they are distributed annually to each city and the county. The allocation of the 1/4 cent sales tax to each community is based upon population.

Farebox Revenues
Farebox revenues are collected for each trip taken on Roseville Transit. Current Roseville Transit fares are listed in the Services Guide. Farebox revenues account for approximately 8% of all revenues for Roseville Transit.

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Urbanized Formula Funds
This program (49 U.S.C. 5307) makes Federal resources available to urbanized areas and to Governors for transit capital and operating assistance in urbanized areas and for transportation related planning. Presently, these funds annually account for approximately 6% of all revenues to Roseville Transit. An urbanized area is an incorporated area with a population of 50,000 or more that is designated as such by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Roseville is part of the Sacramento urbanized area.

The City of Roseville can use the 5307 program funds for planning, engineering design and evaluation of transit projects and other technical transportation-related studies; capital investments in bus and bus-related activities such as replacement of buses, overhaul of buses, rebuilding of buses, crime prevention and security equipment and construction of maintenance and passenger facilities; and capital investments in new and existing fixed guideway systems including rolling stock, overhaul and rebuilding of vehicles, track, signals, communications, and computer hardware and software. Presently, Roseville Transit uses its funds from the 5307 program for capital purchases, primarily buses.