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transportation

Behind the scenes: How WeGo taps big data to design bus routes

Tony Gonzalez

October 6, 2022

WeGo bus repair garage
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Nashville’s bus system rolled out route and schedule adjustments this week for about two dozen lines. But riders don’t necessarily see what’s happening behind the scenes.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bus service, transportation, WeGo

Nashville’s East Bank redevelopment plan looks ambitious, but do its transportation ideas aim high enough?

Laura Dean

September 26, 2022

East Bank rendering

Transit advocates hope Metro makes the most of the East Bank redevelopment — but they also worry that the current plan doesn’t go far enough on transportation options.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bus service, East Bank, Jackie Sims, Jessica Dauphin, transportation, Walk Bike Nashville

Podcast: Why are freight trains blocking Tennessee streets so often?

Tony GonzalezandCynthia Abrams

July 11, 2022

freight train blocked crossing Nashville
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In the past two years, nearly 2,000 people have logged federal complaints about stopped trains blocking road crossings in Tennessee. Sometimes, an entire day passes before the trains get rolling again. As federal officials ramp up their tracking of this chronic problem, WPLN’s Cindy Abrams documents the concern and explains the factors that lead to […]

Filed Under: Curious Nashville Tagged With: Curious Nashville, transportation

Taylor Swiffer? Sweepy McSweepface? Metro wants your help naming its new bike lane sweeper.

Julia RitcheyandMarianna Bacallao

July 8, 2022

bike lane sweeper Nashville

Help name Nashville’s newest street sweeper.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: NDOT, transportation

Experts answer listener questions on how Nashville can expand its transit options

This Is Nashville

July 7, 2022

Nashville bus service
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On Wednesday, This Is Nashville invited Cathy Carrillo, education and engagement manager at Walk Bike Nashville, and Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee CEO Jessica Dauphin to answer listener questions about the current state of public transportation and infrastructure in Nashville. 

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: bus service, transportation, WeGo

Curious Nashville: Freight trains keep blocking city streets and frustrating commuters. Can anything be done?

Cynthia Abrams

July 5, 2022

blocked crossing Nashville
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It can be a daily frustration in some Nashville neighborhoods: a freight train grinds to a halt and blocks the road. The frustration prompted a question to our Curious Nashville project.

Filed Under: Curious Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: CSX, Curious Nashville, rail, transportation

Tell us about the public transportation that you’d like to see in Nashville

This Is Nashville

June 29, 2022

This Is Nashville is planning a future episode about what it’s like to live and work in Nashville when you don’t have a vehicle or are unable to drive.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: cars, public transportation, transportation

Nashville’s debris-filled bike lanes get their own sweeper

Tony Gonzalez

May 23, 2022

bike lane sweeper Nashville

Nashville has a new piece of street-cleaning equipment that’s drawing surprise and delight from bicyclists — a lane sweeper that’s designed to fit within the city’s narrow protected bike lanes recently ran its first trial routes.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bicycles, transportation

Curious Nashville: Will traffic ever improve at Bell Road, one of Nashville’s most baffling interstate exits?

Hallie Graham

April 6, 2022

interstate 24 bell road nashville
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Traffic is not really a new story in Nashville, but Rusti Keen says Exit 59 on Interstate 24 is “particularly insane.” So, she came to Curious Nashville with a question.

Filed Under: Curious Nashville, Features, WPLN News Tagged With: Antioch, Curious Nashville, transportation

Why more Nashvillians are turning to e-bikes to get around

Paige Pfleger

March 9, 2022

Bikes with electric motors, or e-bikes, have been controversial. But last year, Nashville began allowing them on the city’s greenways, with a speed limit of 15 miles an hour.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: BCycle, cycling, e-bikes, ebikes, greenways, transportation, Walk Bike Nashville

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