Mather Field/Mills station

Mather Field/Mills
Mather Field/Mills
Sacramento RT light rail station
	A CAF trainset Train at Mather Field/Mills station
Location	Folsom Boulevard and Mather Field Road; Rancho Cordova, California; United States
Coordinates	38°35′5.13″N 121°18′40.13″W / 38.5847583°N 121.3111472°WCoordinates: 38°35′5.13″N 121°18′40.13″W / 38.5847583°N 121.3111472°W
Owned by	Sacramento RT
Platforms	2 side platforms
Connections	RT buses 21, 72, 75
Construction
Structure type	at-grade
Parking	235 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	September 6, 1998
Services
Location

Mather Field/Mills is a side platformed Sacramento RT light rail station in Rancho Cordova, California, United States. The station was opened on September 6, 1998, and is operated by the Sacramento Regional Transit District. It is served by the Gold Line. The station is located near the intersection of Mather Field Road and Folsom Boulevard, is served by various RT bus routes and serves the nearby Mather Field.

When the station opened in 1998, it replaced Butterfield as the eastern terminus of what was then the original RT light rail alignment (Watt/I-80–Downtown–Butterfield line) and was the first extension to the original network.^[1] It would remain the terminus through June 11, 2004, when the line was extended to Sunrise and eventually all the way to Folsom.^[2]

Platforms and tracks[]

SRTD Westbound	■ Gold Line	toward Sacramento Valley (Butterfield)
SRTD Eastbound	■ Gold Line	toward Historic Folsom (Zinfandel)
Union Pacific	■ Freight line	No passenger service

Deaths[]

A teenage girl, 15-year-old Mariah Burgess, was struck and killed on November 13, 2014, just north of the tracks. She was hit using the crossway located at the intersection of Folsom Boulevard and Coloma Road, just east of the station.

A bicyclist was killed at the Mather Field/Mills station on November 18, 2014.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Bazar, Emily (September 4, 1998). "Light rail ready to go extra miles – Mather Field Road line becomes first extension". The Sacramento Bee. p. A1.
^ Bizjak, Tony (June 10, 2004). "All aboard! RT extension ready to roll – Three light-rail stations open Friday morning in Rancho Cordova". The Sacramento Bee. p. B1.

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[September_4,_1998-1] Bazar, Emily (September 4, 1998). "Light rail ready to go extra miles – Mather Field Road line becomes first extension". The Sacramento Bee. p. A1.

[June_10,_2004-2] Bizjak, Tony (June 10, 2004). "All aboard! RT extension ready to roll – Three light-rail stations open Friday morning in Rancho Cordova". The Sacramento Bee. p. B1.

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