Light rail passengers who have wanted another Rancho Cordova stop may finally get their wish — even if it has been more than 40 years in the making.
Sacramento Regional Transit has secured the funding to build a new station between the Gold Line’s La Riviera Butterfield and Rancho Cordova Mather stops, slicing in half the 2.5-miledistance between them.
The Horn Road station, at the intersection of Folsom Boulevard, was first proposed 45 years ago. Linda Budge, who has served on Rancho Cordova’s city council since 2003 and has lived in the city for more than 40 years, said the inclusion of the line is finally filling in a travel gap that “should not have existed in the first place.”…