As Nashville continues to grow, so do difficulties traveling to, from and around the city.
These evolving traffic headaches affect visitors, commuters and residents. In 2024, Nashvillians approved Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s Choose How You Move plan, giving the go-ahead to a 15-year investment of over $3 billion into transit and infrastructure. The vote seems to signify a new way of thinking for our automobile-addicted community as it provides funding focus to the city’s WeGo Public Transit System, as well as other multi-modal methods of transportation. Slow but steady improvements have begun, including calculated changes made to sidewalks, signals and more.
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