Light rail vs. buses debated in Nashville transit referendum fight
When then-Nashville Mayor Karl Dean in 2011 proposed buses on dedicated lanes along West End Avenue and Broadway, he argued a streetcar on rail was too expensive and not as flexible.
The buses, he argued, would have similar ridership.
But now, light rail is at the center of Nashville’s latest transit discussion four years after the bus rapid transit plan called the Amp died.
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It looks to me like this plan is Houston redux. Houston had an ambitious plan that voters could not swallow, so planners went the incremental way which citizens found palatable. I think Nashville should do the same. Set up a New Jersey Transit Riverline-style light rail line so citizens can get used to the concept, and then expand from there. Sloan