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WeGo CEO outlines timeline for low‑income fare rollout, court‑ride partnership and hiring gains
Summary
CEO Steve Bland told the Nashville MTA board that staff expect to roll out a low‑income free‑fare program by year’s end, announced a partnership to provide WeGo Access rides for certain court participants, reported 145 job offers from a recent hiring fair and summarized coordination with the airport and RTA projects.
WeGo Chief Executive Officer Steve Bland briefed the Nashville MTA board on a set of operational and program items, including a planned low‑income free‑fare program, a partnership to provide WeGo Access rides for some court participants, workforce hiring results and facility and regional coordination work.
Bland said outreach with social service partners and advocacy groups is underway to implement a low‑income free‑fare program funded under the city’s Choose How You Move initiative and that staff expect to recommend implementation measures to the board. “Ultimately, what all of this work will do is help us to develop recommendations that will come back to this board for actual implementation of the low income fair ticket program. And we expect that we should be able to begin to roll that program out by the end of this calendar year,” Bland said.
Bland also described a newly announced partnership with the district attorney’s office to provide WeGo Access trips at no charge to individuals for whom transportation to court proceedings is a barrier; rides will be provided for people working with the DA’s vulnerable adult investigative team and victim witness support divisions. He credited Access manager Marilyn Yokeley and DA staff for developing the program.
On workforce development, Bland reported that a recent WeGo hiring event produced on‑the‑spot screening and interviews and resulted in 145 offers of employment across operator, custodial, servicer and other classifications. Bland said agency and airport staff are coordinating to phase planned service expansions to the airport, and he summarized regional transit work on the Donaldson Station public improvements and the July transition to a new regional bus contractor, Anchor Bus.
Bland closed by praising the youth presentations earlier in the meeting and noting continuing organizational hiring and service expansion work tied to the city’s transportation initiatives.
