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#21 Sloan

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Posted 23 October 2017 - 09:13 AM

 

 

The lurking question on Nashville's transit plan: What about self-driving cars?

 

As Mayor Megan Barry touts the urgency of addressing Middle Tennessee’s congestion with a $5.2 billion transit plan, a big question persists that could undermine her campaign: What about autonomous vehicles?

http://www.tennessea...cars/776070001/



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Posted 24 October 2017 - 11:21 AM

Tennessean, Nashville, TN, 10/24/17:

 


 

Coming up short: Council members push back on planned Charlotte Avenue light rail line

 

Under Nashville Mayor Megan Barry's $5.2 billion transit plan, commuters heading away from downtown on a proposed Charlotte Avenue light rail line would get no farther than Interstate 440 near 31st Avenue North.  

 

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Posted 26 October 2017 - 09:31 AM

 

 

Why Mayor Barry's transit team says Nashville’s $936M tunnel wouldn't be too big a dig

Below the surface, Nashville is known for limestone.

The hard bedrock has fueled what members of Mayor Megan Barry’s administration and engineers say is a myth — that building a transit tunnel underground isn’t feasible here, either financially or structurally.

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Posted 01 November 2017 - 10:33 AM

 

 

Why Light Rail Makes No Sense for Nashville

Nashville’s mayor has unveiled a $5.2 billion proposal for a 26 mile new light rail system in five corridors, with a 1.8 mile downtown subway segment. It would be funded by a half-cent initial increase in the sales tax, later boosted to a full cent, plus increases in the hotel and rental cars, and business and excise taxes. Bus upgrades are part of the program too.

Building a system like this makes no sense in a city like Nashville.

http://www.urbanophi...-for-nashville/

 

Mr. Renn does have a point that that Nashville does not have the density to support light rail.  To build that density and to add to the "charm" of the city, it would be better to start with a streetcar line.  My preference would be for replica cars, but, irregardless, lower capital costs would make streetcar implementation palatable to citizens and policymakers. :closedeyes: Sloan


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Posted 12 November 2017 - 02:07 AM

Citylab, 11/10/17:

 


 

Can Nashville Pull Off a $5.2 Billion Transit Makeover?

 

Nashville Mayor Megan Barry announced a massive transit overhaul for the city earlier this month—one of the boldest municipal projects in recent memory, and easily the biggest in Nashville history. The $5.2 billion plan would introduce 26 miles of inlight rail across four new lines, four rapid bus lines, expanded bus service for existing routes, a major downtown tunneling project, and some two dozen transit centers across the city.

 

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Posted 23 November 2017 - 11:42 AM

 

 

Mayor Barry extends length of Charlotte Avenue light rail plan after West Nashville backlash

 

Amid criticism that a plan for light rail along Charlotte Avenue wouldn't reach several of West Nashville's growing neighborhoods, Mayor Megan Barry has now doubled the length of the route.

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Posted 04 January 2018 - 08:41 AM

 

 

The Nashville Media Is Getting Played by Transit-Bashing Hired Guns

Randall O’Toole has never met a transit project he didn’t hate.

The Cato fellow has a knack for inserting himself into nearly every local debate over transit expansion, arguing against investments in rail and bus service. He’s done it in Albuquerque. And Atlanta. And Charlotte.

https://usa.streetsb...ing-hired-guns/



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Posted 12 January 2018 - 09:43 PM

Opinion in  Tennessean, Nashville, TN, 1/11/18:

 


 

Nix Mayor Megan Barry's Gallatin Road light rail plan

 

 

 

Nashville’s big transit plan proposes a short railway on Gallatin Pike. This service will attract fewer riders than the current rapid bus.

As more modern transport comes to Nashville, ridership on the train will decline.

 

 

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Posted 08 February 2018 - 12:08 PM

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NASHVILLE — The city’s Metro Council voted 34 to two in favor of adding Mayor Megan Barry’s transit referendum, which would raise four taxes, including the sales tax, to pay for a large mass transit plan that is anchored by the implementation of a new light rail system, to the May 1 ballot, The Tennessean reports.

The council, however, tweaked the referendum language to list both the transit proposal's present-day cost of $5.4 billion, as well as the estimated amount of long-term revenue needed for the project, $8.95 billion. The mayor's office had lobbied for only the lower amount to go on the ballot.

The council’s action sets the stage for what will be one of the most momentous public referendums in Nashville history and continues a campaign that’s already turned heated in recent weeks between supporters and detractors, according to the report. For the full story, click here.

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Posted 23 March 2018 - 11:45 AM

Opinion in the Tennessean, Nashville, TN, 3/23/18:

 


 

Nashville is bullish about transit, but we lack a transit culture

 

 

Thousands of residents said they wanted a “complete transit network” as one six factors of their preferred future for Nashville when they participated in the citizen engagement portion of the NashvilleNext community plan, which became Davidson County’s 25-year strategy in 2015.

 

 

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