Back to basics

Metro officials and other regional leaders two years ago released the nMotion plan to build out Middle Tennessee’s public transit networks. With the decisive defeat of May’s referendum, almost all of those plans have been put on ice. MTA officials are moving forward on a few projects — including a rebranding to WeGo Public Transit this summer — but few other elements look likely to happen for a while.

Nevertheless, it’s worth revisiting just what nMotion — whose planners canvassed thousands of city residents for the better part of 18 months — foresaw happening in the next few years. Here is an excerpt from the plan that outlined the first building blocks from which more ambitious projects could grow. Re-reading these priorities alongside the responses we gathered here makes for an interesting exercise.