Metro budget assumes Jefferson Street grant

Metro’s newly approved budget is the first of several slated to contribute to the $48 million needed for a cap over Interstate 40 along Jefferson Street.

Metro Council last Tuesday approved Councilmember Kyonzté Toombs’ version of Mayor John Cooper’s fiscal 2022 budget, with its capital project expenditures intact for what has been termed the Jefferson Street Multimodal Cap and Connector. That project would put a section of Interstate 40 under a 3.4-acre land bridge connecting the Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Bridge over the highway to 16th Avenue North. Funding would partly come via President Joe Biden’s Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Grant and would, as described by the Cooper Administration, help reconnect parts of North Nashville to the district comprising Fisk University and Meharry Medical College.