[1][2][3] The 43-mile (69 km) network serves over 56,800 passengers a day as of 2012, making it the 10th-largest light rail system in the United States in terms of ridership.
[4][5][6] The stations along the network are open-air structures featuring passenger canopies for protection from adverse weather.
Twenty-six stations offer bus transfer services and eighteen have free park-and-ride lots with a total of 7,379 available parking spaces.
[8] Included originally as part of the network, both stations were deferred resulting from neighborhood opposition only to be built later due to changing attitudes towards the rail project.
[9] In 1998, Mather Field / Mills opened at Rancho Cordova as the first extension to the original network.