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WeGo and NDOT outline transit upgrades tied to growth; Choose How You Move to fund sidewalks, signals and transit corridors
Summary
Public transit operators and city transportation staff told a community meeting that improving transit service and street infrastructure is central to accommodating projected housing growth; they described cross‑town routes, a new transit center in North Nashville and investments enabled by the voter-approved Choose How You Move program.
Felix Castredad, a WeGo operations official, and Marty Sewell, transportation planning director for Metro Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT), described how transit service and street investments must link to where the city adds housing.
Castredad said WeGo carries a little more than 8 million rides a year and that roughly 75% of ridership is concentrated on major corridors. He told the community that some areas with higher transit propensity — measured by lower incomes, 0-car households and other census indicators — fall outside the agency’s frequent-route network and have seen ridership declines as housing costs pushed people to…
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