wish we had a mayor who viewed affordable housing fronting a frequent transit route and one of the first BRT corridors as a community asset and public good

they are throwing yet another peak bus onto the 55 to improve reliability as they launch adaptive headway management on the corridor so now route 55 riders will get to wait on 16 buses stuck in traffic instead of just 15!

lmao so the plan is to host a super bowl at the new stadium five years before we build the relevant portion of the six lane superhighway that simply ~must~ be six lanes because of the traffic demand modeling

According to Waymo consultant Brad Templeton, the solution to Waymo vehicles breaking the law by passing stopped school buses is to change the law and replace all school buses with Waymos. www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...

love that @transit.app is doing a year in review now! i wonder what the WeGo board members’ numbers look like

TRANSIT RIDERS ON TRANSIT BOARDS

everybody's doing it ... (headway-managed operations to improve reliability and reduce bunching)

For those council members who have difficulty googling, here's a link to WeGo's federally-mandated Transit Asset Management plan, which details the fleet age, condition, and replacement strategy. It's a very fun read.

youtube is now doing a spotify unwrapped and they really got me

it remains remarkably hilarious to me that the #1 priority for company executives is (rightly) the lowest priority for every other employee not in the C-suite

y’all ever think about how they blew up the library

Sometimes, to deliver the vision that voters elected you for requires replacing previous administrations’ appointees.

it’s remarkable how good we are at implementing limited-time fare suspension despite executive leadership’s ramblings to the contrary is it time for new executive leadership that’s more in touch with the reality of modern transit operations?

we got $10,000,001 for new buses idk why that one extra dollar but thx www.transit.dot.gov/funding/gran...

a fun night was had by all!

certainly seems like a very big scandal if the chair has been trying to call a special meeting for weeks and the staff and CEO is obstructing that … i hope the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social will investigate

it’s very funny to see council members learn that maybe they should have spent more than 0.2 seconds thinking about the nominees for boards and commissions that they unanimously and uncritically approved

no peppy boi left for @ambysharpe.bsky.social

No bad weather, only bad clothes (or, “Mx Mox, did you BIKE today?!”)

tired: leaders throw folks under the bus wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane

By my count it's the 8th queue jump lane in Nashville, but still exciting! youtu.be/zRf0aOK9AjA?...

I voted for DADUs, everyone

“If you can’t afford to live in Nashville that’s not my problem. Just move to another LGBTQ affirming suburb like Murfreesboro and sit in traffic on I24 for 4 hours a day!” - @oliviahill247.bsky.social’s unspoken declaration with her vote www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Democratic candidate for congressional district 5 @mikecortesenash.bsky.social deciding to align himself with Donald Trump’s housing policy (yikes!) trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...

“why can’t Metro just take action!?” @erinfor12.bsky.social , yesterday *votes against taking the most minuscule action to fulfill one tiny part of Nashville Next* @erinfor12.bsky.social, after over two years of public engagement

“from white bridge to west meade” (red x is Tasha Ellis lmfao) she lives in a 9-unit cottage court … the exact type of housing that was affordable to her and that these bills are seeking to create in more parts of the county

i’ve been pacing the kitchen for the last 20 minutes yelling “KEY FIVE” at my phone #MetroCouncilNash

the cool thing about deeply thinking, planning, and studying … is we can keep doing it forever and never actually have to take any action on anything see also: housing

Over 3 years after seeking “community” approval, the Inspiritus project in Salemtown has topped out, a full floor shorter than it could’ve been This building could be done and housing 95 low income Nashvillians, but we wasted time trying to placate the implacable, and lost 15 homes in the process

after a blissful 9 months in a job where i didn’t have to send or receive a single email, i have now reinstalled outlook on my phone :( jeremiah dot wooten at nashville dot gov

williamson county resident Amy Adams Strunk demonstrating that classic fiscal conservatism™ (paying multiple people multiple millions a year to not work for their football team) nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/13/t...

perhaps one day nashville will have an urban core

Hey, what’s up Nashville!? We’re trying out the WeGo Airport Express (18) today. We’ll see how ambitious I am about posting as we go, but you can count on a trip summary outbound and inbound on this thread.

you thought you knew what BRT stands for

they really should have put @williamhazen.bsky.social on the panel but still very excited to hear what Diana Alarcon has to say about doing anything quickly!

oh no

It’s important to understand how the housing and infrastructure study phase two recommendations will interact with our whiter and wealthier than the rest of the city historic neighborhoods. Pass it on, bring some friends.

conan gray rode a bicycle on stage at ascend

The next Nashville MTA (WeGo) board meeting is this week! 🗓️ Thursday, Sept. 25 ⌚ 2:30 p.m. 📍 TN Bankers Association Building at 211 Athens Way 🚌 Just off the Route 9 Metrocenter www.wegotransit.com/assets/1/27/...

My first experience at a bus stop with a new bench from To Nashville With Love, and it was great! This stop has needed one for a long time, and it was really nice to be able to rest for a moment. www.tonashvillewithlove.com

Good news

“We don’t have to wait for official approval to love our neighbor.”

the new Titans express bus service from Bellevue and Sumner County must have been a smashing success last weekend! both routes will be adding a fourth bus for tomorrow’s game, providing 20-minute headways www.wegotransit.com/titans/

several folks in district 16 were so upset about @ginnywelsch.bsky.social’s appearance on @citycastnash.bsky.social that they took a page from our geriatric democrats in congress and wrote a strongly worded open letter nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/why...

Public Comment Period is now open on WeGo’s Winter Service Changes that will take effect Jan. 4 More details in thread below and at this link: www.wegotransit.com/assets/1/6/W...

So many Nashvillians count on these southbound buses to get to and from work. It's amazing that we can buy them literal *hours* of their week back by getting buses moving. That's time for family, friends, and fun that they didn't have before.

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