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MTA board amends FY2025–2030 Capital Investment Plan; funding rises to $1.5 billion with Choose How You Move and TDOT grants
Summary
The Metropolitan Transit Authority board voted to amend its FY2025–2030 Capital Investment Plan to incorporate the initial Metro Council appropriation of Choose How You Move funds and recent TDOT grants, increasing funding from $544 million to $1.5 billion.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority board voted to amend its FY2025–2030 Capital Investment Plan to incorporate the initial Metro Council appropriation of Choose How You Move funds and recent Tennessee Department of Transportation grants.
Billy Higgins, presenting the amendment, said staff updated financial projections and added new and re‑scoped projects. “With this amendment, funding has increased from $544,000,000 to $1,500,000,000,” Higgins said, and total identified project investments rose from $435,000,000 to $1,300,000,000.
Higgins listed awarded TDOT capital funding for several projects: renovation and expanded training capacity at the Maya training facility (apprenticeship and driver training), improvements to the Elizabeth D. Transit Center (including adjustments for an adjacent parking garage), vertical lift and storage improvements at multiple facilities, and an award of $6,250,000 for the Upper Dickerson Transit Center design and advancement. Staff also described planned projects funded in the amendment: transit security upgrades, a new bus operations and maintenance facility, fleet expansion tied to service growth, transit stop and shelter improvements, the Antioch Transit Center, the Murfreesboro high‑capacity transit corridor and coordination with the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) on Donaldson Transit Center work (Donaldson is an RTA property; MTA and RTA will coordinate).
Higgins said Choose How You Move local revenues will reduce annual federal dependency for operating support by freeing federal funds that had previously been applied to preventive maintenance and ADA capitalization; the shift will allow more federal dollars to be targeted to state‑of‑good‑repair projects.
After a brief discussion, the board voted in favor of MA25‑016 to adopt the amended capital plan. The board’s approval authorizes staff to proceed with project planning and to spend appropriated funds according to the updated plan.
Why it matters: staff characterized the amendment as a historic increase in the agency’s capital resources and a first step toward delivering expanded service, security upgrades and long‑term state of good repair work funded by a mix of local, state and federal sources.
