i bet CM Johnston is now wishing we had hacked some more of the trees

got queue jumped even in the snow … should have taken the bus to work today

TDOT Smartway cameras in Jackson show that the snow is real and is heading our way. Next closest cameras are 80-90 miles east in Dickson and are still showing dry roads.

If you haven’t heard WeGo will be operating on a Level 3 snow plan, which means service will only operate on major routes and on snow detours. These routes operate on TDOT and NDOT’s primary treatment routes, so we can expect these roads to remain passable throughout the weekend. But expect delays.

The January MTA Board Meeting will be starting soon at the GNRC building in Nashville’s favorite sub-urban office park: MetroCenter! (But at least there’s a bus in the Google Maps street view image) You can watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/A5HXpSk...

an event where you start at one location and march to another location is an especially good one to take the bus to! no issues with where to leave your car and how to get back to your car. always good to have at least one voice in the room to remind folks.

it’s very funny how just transparently illegal so many suburban governments function not even trying to hide the requirement of “voluntary impact fees” from developers in exchange for allowing higher density just straight up asking “what has always been the quid pro quo … is it higher density?”

Exciting unsolicited proposal at yesterday’s RTA board meeting. LDG is seeking to build mixed-income housing on a parcel adjacent to Hermitage station. They are seeking a long-term easement to use part of the RTA property for site access/parking to maximize the building footprint on their site.

“We’ve got 526 square miles to use for potential housing … but not there or there and we can’t do it there and that place won’t work and definitely not there” — @mayor.nashville.gov

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what the AI is this photo?

It seems the nonprofit organization set up to push for a Memphis-to-Atlanta Amtrak line has a website

Murfreesboro Transit to launch new pilot route

Every single CM who has a sidewalk/traffic calming/bikeway project that is behind schedule should be asking how much time and money were spent on taking away seating, lying about concrete balls as seating and public art, and redesigning concrete balls as fake seating.

what percentage of WeGo riders do you think receive trash pick up subsidized by the metro general fund?

It's Monday. Our Chief of Pizza and Parking is busy being a parent or something, but we'll be at Urban Cowboy downtown from 6ish on. Cmon out.

see also: Diana Alarcon

You live in Brentwood? Oh you’re so brave, I could never! Is it safe? Like can you walk down the street?

we paid 3x this amount for global mall with plans to build … pretty much just a transit center there as well

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