Nashville leaders search group suggestions for main journey undertaking

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A current undertaking goals to make a number of large adjustments to the protection and mobility of journey inside Nashville over the subsequent decade.

The initiative’s known as Join Downtown and it is a 10-year motion plan that might be dropped at life in three phases. It is a collaboration between a number of state and native transit departments. The undertaking requested for group suggestions in Could 2022.

Draft suggestions have been launched specializing in 5 “large strikes” to make long-term and short-term. These embody: managing congestion, enhancing security, shifting extra individuals by the buses with quicker and dependable journeys, creating full networks for strolling, biking rolling and scooting round city and maximizing the curb to assist native companies and venues.

A few of these efforts appear like higher administration of particular occasions downtown, changing sure streets to 1 methods and making extra use of the curb for passenger pickup and drop offs

Mayor Freddie O’Connell mentioned it is a option to chip away on the congestion and enhance security for individuals no matter how they get across the metropolis.

The group is invited to attend an open home to ask metropolis leaders extra questions this week. The primary is going on November 14 from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on the Downtown Presbyterian Church and the second on November 15 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Nashville Farmer’s Market.