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Music City Star

A Sinkhole Is Disrupting Nashville’s Only Commuter Train

Tony Gonzalez

October 6, 2021

WeGo sinkhole

There’s no set timeline yet for repairing a sinkhole that developed directly beneath the train tracks used by Nashville’s only commuter train.

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Nashville Struggles To Fill Commuter Train, But Says Offering More Trips Will Help

Tony Gonzalez

August 19, 2016

Listen Nashville’s one and only train for commuters — the Music City Star — is still a limited service right now. But it plays an important part in Nashville’s newly released plan to expand mass transit.

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As Middle Tennessee Weighs Trio Of Transit Options, It’s All Or Nothing For One County

Tony Gonzalez

March 14, 2016

Listen When it comes to regional mass transit, Middle Tennessee will soon choose among a trio of options. They range widely — from essentially doing nothing new, to spending big on rapid buses, streetcars or trains.

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Transit Fans Fawn Over Commuter Rail, But Study Says It Doesn’t Fit For Nashville

Tony Gonzalez

October 5, 2015

Listen Nashville’s transit officials hear the clamoring for more commuter rail service, which is usually fast and can carry a lot of people. But in Middle Tennessee, that would probably require squeezing passenger trains onto busy CSX freight lines — and those prospects are slim, according to a new study.

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