This year’s $527 million plan marks an increase of $13 million from last year and is subject to Metro Council approval.
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Cindy Abrams is WPLN’s metro reporter. She grew up in Eugene and Portland, Oregon and moved east after graduating from Whitman College. Cindy comes to Nashville from central Virginia, where she covered the courts at Rappahannock News. She was WPLN’s digital news intern in 2021 before joining the station full-time as a newscast and digital producer last year. She started covering the Metro government in the fall of 2023.
WeGo ramps up hiring and training as Nashville looks to increase bus service
Now that Nashville voters have given the green-light to the transit referendum, the city will be increasing its bus service. That means running buses more often and for longer hours — and that means more drivers and mechanics.
Nashville mayor mulls grocery sales tax cut as a potential offset for incoming transit tax
For months, local groups have encouraged Metro to offset the burden of a higher sales tax by eliminating the grocery sales tax.
Former Nashville mayor Megan Barry unpacks her administration, her family and her grief in new memoir
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‘Co-housing’ hasn’t taken off in Middle Tennessee, but it’s thriving 10 years later on this Nashville block
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Nashville voters approved a major transportation upgrade. What comes next?
While Nashville’s mayor is starting to move on his transit plan immediately, some changes will take more than a decade to implement.
Nashville’s transit referendum passes with two-thirds approval
The referendum is the city’s second attempt at establishing a dedicated source of funding for its transit system. If it passes, it will increase Nashville’s sales tax by a half-cent to fund $3.1 billion in transportation upgrades.
This voter wants Harris to win — but didn’t vote for her
After Anna Rose Mahoney cast her ballot in East Nashville on Tuesday, she felt hopeful — and a bit anxious. Mahoney said she hopes to see Kamala Harris elected at the end of the night. However, she didn’t vote for her. Instead, Mahoney opted to vote third party, with the humanitarian conflict in Gaza at […]
Here’s what Nashville voters are saying about the transit referendum
Nashville’s transit referendum proposes a half-cent sales tax increase to fund $3 billion in major transportation upgrades.
Where does the money for Nashville’s dueling transit campaigns come from?
As the future of Nashville’s transit system hangs in the balance, groups both for and against the referendum are making final efforts to persuade voters — and there’s a big gap in their capacity to get messages to voters.
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