Committee advances nominees for Metro transportation advisory panel after hour-long interviews

The Rules, Confirmations & Public Elections Committee on March 4 interviewed and voted to advance multiple nominees for five vacancies on the Advisory Committee on Transportation, sending each name to the full Metro Council for a final vote on March 18.

The advisory committee positions are meant to help guide implementation of the city’s Choose How You Move transportation improvement plan, a voter‑approved, multi‑year program to expand transit service, add sidewalks and make other right‑of‑way changes. Committee members interviewed nominees in a series of back‑to‑back presentations and recorded votes to forward each candidate to the council.

Kaylin Russell, advocacy manager at the Equity Alliance, told the committee she brought communications and community engagement experience tied to housing and transit equity. "I believe the transportation plan does have a great foundation to making Nashville more equitable and a more accessible city," Russell said, urging that implementation maintain broad community voice so "development doesn't happen to us and not with us." The committee voted 6–0 to advance…