Nashville’s Transit Comeback Is Finally Happening: And There Is No Plan B!

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  @yankee8570 · 2 months ago

  Wow, that's incredible! For only 57% of the cost, you can get 0% of the trains!

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• HI

  @himbourbanist · 2 months ago

  man Nashville voting against that light rail system was really shooting itself in the foot huh? I'm sure that traffic has gotten better since then right lmfao

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  @jeffb243 · 2 months ago

  Native Nashvillian here (1964 model). The Nashville area just grew too damn fast! Transplants galore now!!!!<br>Now they’re playing catch up. <br>Wilson, Rutherford, and Williamson Counties should all chip in on better transit systems, since they are the 3 contributing factors. Dickson County and Cheatham counties contribute to the mess on 40 on the west side.

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  @tombecker8226 · 1 month ago

  I&apos;ve lived in Nashville for the last 51 years and said 30 years ago if we don&apos;t have a massive transit system in place soon we never will. And that&apos;s the case as of 2026 and beyond I&apos;m 68 now and seriously doubt we will ever have a mass transit system at least not in my lifetime.😥

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  @AndrewDouglass-x1f · 2 months ago

  The fact that there&apos;s weekday bus service every 20 minutes to Bellevue is a miracle in itself. And FWIW, Bellevue is not particularly heavy on sidewalks. (Upzoning along the 70S corridor from west of Nine Mile Hill out past Sawyer Brown would be immensely beneficial. Those tract houses and apartment complexes are reaching a point where the land is probably worth more than the structures.)<br><br>The structure of Metro is such that there&apos;s no WeGo service in the &quot;remainder&quot; areas--places like Belle Meade and Forest Hills which were incorporated before Metro&apos;s creation. Same is true of Goodlettsville, which would seem to be a prime candidate for upzoning. If you&apos;re in Green Hills, the 7 bus ends at the mall. I seem to recall that, years ago, there was at least some service on Hillsboro south of there, and it couldn&apos;t be that difficult.<br><br>There are certain restrictions which aren&apos;t going to disappear. The geology of up to 30% of the city area just isn&apos;t suitable for development. Again, the old chartered cities are generally unlikely to loosen their grip on detached single family as the only model. That means other parts of the city have to accommodate development. What wasn&apos;t mentioned in this piece was a bit of Nashville planning history. Up until the early 90s or so, city policy was pretty actively opposed to residential development in the core. Land was being chewed up at a rapid rate for low-density subdivisions, and the nature of Metro government makes annexation of surrounding land in adjacent counties all but impossible (and the state isn&apos;t going to do a damn thing to enable it). <br><br>I&apos;m glad to see this program really getting underway. Haven&apos;t checked the WeGo site lately, but I should to see what service improvements have already been made.

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  @PelicanTSeagull-u3y · 2 months ago

  We need train or bus routes from Murfreesboro through Smyrna, Antioch to the Nashville Airport to downtown Nashville.

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  @ronb.9946 · 2 months ago

  The population numbers you have with a Metro of over 1 million is off. The Metro population is approaching 2.3 million.<br>The only issues I have with the plan is the timeline involved getting the project finished. Another issue with the area is there is little cooperation between Nashville and the surrounding communities. <br>The MC Star is about all we have in terms of cross county transit and the rail system need major upgrades.

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  @dogdaddave · 1 month ago

  This is diabolical. Why pay 5 billion for everything we need when we can pay 3 billion for literally nothing.

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  @titangrid1 · 1 month ago

  Great video 👏👏

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  @TheTapeFarm · 2 months ago (edited)

  You missed some major reasons why the first referendum failed. Funding to fix I-440 had been approved and the mayor and her “team” purposefully delayed the start of the project until after the election so they could either A) be able to reallocate that funding for their “vision” or B) at the very least claim credit for fixing I-440. But literally within days of the referendum failing, the rebuilding of I-440 started. <br>It didn’t fail because people in Nashville are stupid or lack “vision”. It failed because the people pushing it were playing games instead of be being civil servants they were elected to be. <br><br>Within a year or so the mayor was thrown out of office because of corruption and a scandal where she was having an affair with her a member of her security team and allowed him to bill the city tax payers for thousands of hours of unworked overtime amounting to over a million dollars. <br><br>So people weren’t going to vote for a project being pushed by a corrupt, and manipulative mayor.

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  @mmccloud-d9y · 1 month ago

  To say that I am proud of my Nashville is an understatement. I am BEYOND PROUD of Nashville. I can&apos;t see me living anywhere else in the USA and being happy. Now, Nashville is NOT perfect. Our transit system isn&apos;t perfect. It still needs a LOT of work. &nbsp;Things like some of the UNFRIENDLY. UNPROFESSIONAL DRIVERS. &nbsp; Some of our drivers are great. Really good. Others however, yeah well <br>The thieves and bums that ride our buses. I will be speaking with Mr. OConnell about that. &nbsp;That needs IMMEDIATE SERIOUS ATTENTION. &nbsp;<br>Buses not getting repaired I have turned several buses in because things on them are malfunctioning. And they have not as of yet been repaired. Mr. O&apos;Connor needs to know about these things and take fast hard action to get and KEEP them fixed. &nbsp;I love love love our transit system, it&apos;s getting better and better all the time. But issues have to be addressed to keep them fixed and make WeGo the best it possibly can be. &nbsp; Mike McCloud

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  @OGoshlyKakashi · 2 months ago

  lived out east 30 years we need an interstate system on top of the interstate system. traffic lights that actually doesnt sit red and let traffic pile up while the other way has no one coming.

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