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Breaking down Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s $514M capital spending plan

Cynthia Abrams

January 28, 2024

WeGo bus fleet Nashville

The plan’s top investments include education and city maintenance — such as upgrades to fire stations, libraries and greenways. It also devotes around $39 million to transit needs and $25 million toward early investments into the East Bank development.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Capital spending plan, East Bank, Freddie O'Connell, metro, Metro Government, MNPD, MNPS, MTA, NDOT, WeGo

Nashville’s new transit center in North Nashville is driving an array of WeGo bus service changes

Cynthia Abrams

December 1, 2023

Nashville’s public transit agency, WeGo, is proposing a host of changes for spring 2024. Across the city, eight bus lines will see updates to their routes and frequency. That’s tied, in large part, to the anticipated opening of a new transit center in North Nashville.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bus routes, metro, MTA, NNTC, North Nashville Transit Center, public transit, transit, WeGo

Goodbye coin meters and free night parking in downtown Nashville. Hello 24/7 parking enforcement.

Cynthia Abrams

February 5, 2023

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If you’ve ever scrounged around your car looking for parking meter change, that won’t be necessary much longer in Nashville. 

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: MTA, NDOT, parking, parking enforcement, parking meters

WeGo’s downtown terminal named after first female bus driver, who always went ‘full throttle’

Paige Pfleger

July 22, 2022

WeGo’s main bus terminal downtown has a new name — the Elizabeth Duff Transit Center. It’s named after the first African American female bus driver in Nashville.

Filed Under: History, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: bus service, MTA, transit, WeGo

Metro Lands $3 Million Federal Grant for Electric Buses

Blake Farmer

September 14, 2012

The Metro Transit Authority has landed a federal grant to help purchase electric buses. Friday’s announcement attracted the country’s top overseer of mass transit.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: electric bus, MTA, Peter Rogoff

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