The Antiplanner is flying to Nashville today to speak at a conference tomorrow about the future of Nashville’s transportation, the mayor’s light-rail plan, and what should be done instead.
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As the first speaker, the Antiplanner will argue that light rail is expensive, obsolete, and hasn’t improved per capita transit ridership in most of the cities that have built it. Later speakers will discuss alternatives such as ways to relieve congestion and driverless cars. If you are in central Tennessee, I hope to see you there.
It looks like you won’t be too far from Centennial Park. They have a sweet . 4-8-4 from the old Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis (NC&StL) Railway on display there.
If you’re looking for a great local beer on tap, Craft Brewed isn’t too far away. I would personally recommend anything from Mantra or Bearded Iris. They’re consistently damn good. All the others are just the usual okay to good local breweries that you can find in any city, IMHO.
Belmont is just a mile or three west of the proposed site for a Major League Soccer ( MLS ) team’s stadium. It looks like Nashville Mayor Barry & the board have committed to spending a butt ton of money to build that team a stadium. That may be something worth pointing out since it’s not clear where all this money is going to come from.
Even Barry’s LRT / Tunnel plan on it’s own has others asking how the city and county will afford it. Some say that for all practical purposes, they’ll have maxed out the sales tax for a generation or more, leaving the city no wiggle room to deal with future needs.
IIRC Barry’s planned tunnel downtown only had one station planned. If that’s right, it strikes me as more than odd to build a billion dollar tunnel with only one station. Id think you’d want at least 3 downtown to ensure people can get off and walk. OR does Mayor Barry see a future when everyone gets off at the downtown station and takes a party barge ( yep, they have party barges in Nashville; just people drinking in the back of an extended pickup bed; https://www.nashvillepartybarge.com ) around downtown?
If you like bluegrass and have time, get into the Station Inn in while you can. With all the development in The Gulch I can’t imagine how much longer that place will be open, at least in it’s original location.
What amazes me the most of Mayor Barry’s plan is the Music City Star. They’ve had a rail transit line for a dozen years now. It carries something like 30% trips now than what had been promised in it’s first year of service, let alone year 12. THere is not a single one – and I’m not kidding – not a single new apartment building built along any of it’s 5 non downtown stops. About 600 individuals on the usual weekday use it out of a metro area closing in on 2 million ( may hit 2m next year ).
The Music City Star is hands down the least commuter rail line in the country. There’s no hope that anytime in the next decade it’ll hit the number of trips promised IN IT’S FIRST YEAR! It’s a total flop that clearly demonstrates Nashville doesn’t want to use rail transit.
Where there any creditable alternatives presented and if so is there a link to their plan?
http://fox17.com/news/local/anti-metro-transit-plan-meeting-held-to-come-up-with-referendum-alternative
prk166: I met one of the people who is helping to restore the 576. He said it has been moved out of the park to a site where they can work on it. I didn’t get a chance to see it this trip. It is smaller than the SP&S 700 but still an impressive machine.
Sketter: Several alternative ideas were presented but no cohesive overall alternative yet. Some of the speakers commented on the politician’s fallacy–“we have to do something; this is something; so we have to do this.”
The city clearly hasn’t considered a wide range of alternatives, but if its goal is to reduce congestion as claimed, it has chosen the least effective way of doing it. Okay, it would be less effective to block all roads with concrete barriers, but blocking them with giant buses and trains is little better.
Thank you. I forgot about the restoration project for the 576. If anyone is interested, the web site for it is here – http://www.nashvillesteam.org/2016/04/576-restoration-proposal/ . You can donate to the project at the web site.
This is it at it’s old house in the park
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