Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Voters funded Nashville’s Choose How You Move plan; city officials outline scope and near-term projects
Summary
Metro officials and the newly formed advisory committee reviewed the Choose How You Move program after voters approved a half-cent sales surtax, highlighting $3.1 billion in capital projects, initial funded priorities and the referendum’s two-thirds approval across council districts.
Metro officials used a kickoff meeting to summarize the Choose How You Move program approved by Nashville voters and to outline near-term work already under way.
Michael Briggs, the city’s deputy chief program officer for the initiative, said the plan responds to anticipated growth and congestion and tied the need for action to the program’s scale: “We call it the heart attack map because it looks like, literally our main arteries, as part of our transportation system clogging.”
The program is funded by a half-cent local sales surtax approved by voters. City staff told…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
