The Moving Forward report that came out of a yearlong study commissioned by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce was a bold statement on Middle Tennessee’s future transit options.
Released earlier this year, the report calls for adopting the most ambitious and expensive vision — a $5.4 billion decades-long plan — the Metropolitan Transit Authority and Regional Transit Authority have put forward in past studies.
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