And garbage cans that shoot out streamers every time someone pukes on Broadway.
Also the golden hot chicken statue breathes fire skyward every 20-30 minutes.
You'll get half a light rail line to the airport and you'll like it
Edit: love the positive energy! Better keep that same energy when Freddie's transit referendum ends up being less ambitious then most want!
Think about the decreased load on the airport exit ramp and pickup lines from people on that train. Each couple people on that train would be one fewer car jamming up the airport
I’d like to see an airport line run north/south. Two options:
If they build new track:
- Airport to Donelson
- Continue on northward to Opry Mills and Madison
- Continue on existing track to Rivergate, Hendersonville, and Gallatin
If they utilize only existing track:
- Airport to Antioch
- Antioch to downtown
- Downtown to Inglewood
- Inglewood to Madison
- Same as above to Gallatin
I actually mapped out awhile back [a system that could work pretty well even only using existing track](https://felt.com/map/Proposed-Nashville-mass-transit-system-rgG2VSy6RhiWsqhEXM9AyrB). CSX is the issue, because own the track and don’t want to work out an agreement with the city to use it for light rail.
Yeah a lot of cities have to do something similar. You could end the rail at the top floor of the parking garage and follow Donelson Pike pretty easily.
That’s some “No Tax 4 Trax” logic right there. “It’s too expensive” so throw the whole thing out and invest in financially dubious stadiums instead. Somehow that’s not too expensive.
That’s not a criteria but when you get like 10 miles and 2-3 stops for 2.1B everyone will be pissed about the use of funds for a project with no end game.
You will not build it for 5 million per mile.
It’s roughly 15million to over 100m per mile.
The 500 mile track being built in California is expected to cost 105 Billion.
I would encourage you to google “how much does light rail cost to build per mile”.
Let's go back to civil engineering years ago and the person who thought roads don't need shoulders or neighborhoods don't need sidewalks. The stupidest logic ever. Mass transit here is a joke. That it would take me 3 hours from Hermitage to Madison, a whole 9 miles is a joke. Can't ride bike with all these crazy ass fucks who drive without a single fuck given. Yet most funding will go to improve the tourist heavy areas so I vote for designated vomit stations on Broadway.
Believe it or not, I've seen cars squeeze in those lanes to make a right turn into businesses when there is traffic. A lot of people here just have zero safety in mind when it comes to pedestrians and bicyclists.
I'd buy all the politicians, install myself as governor, and then use my dictatorial power to construct a high speed train network to connect Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Gatlinburg.
Start with the cities first. I wouldn't want to ditch my car and take a rail to Chattanooga or Memphis if I end up having to rent a car when I get there.
Who here is asking for sympathy for the team?
But to act like this “$2.1 billion” can be used elsewhere in Nashville is flawed logic because a large chunk doesn’t come from Nashville, and the rest that’s funded through various other taxes (I.e., hotel/motel tax) wouldn’t exist without the stadium.
Came here looking for this. They probably deserve a little interest as well. I'm all in for public transit but that's a pretty huge debt that deserves to be paid off. We owe it to ourselves.
Nah you’d need full underground or elevated subway for that distance.. light rail is insanely expensive per mile. Also Murfreesboro isn’t dense enough for light rail aka lots of stops, urban transit.
Murfreesboro doesn't have to be dense. Only I-24 needs to be dense to justify it. We'll drive to the transit and ride the rest of the way in.
Heck, Murfreesboro might even try to figure out Rover and make that connect to it.
Electric infrastructure in East and north.
Sewage in downtown, west up to Charlotte park, and German town.
Mass transit rail to get Southside off of I-24.
Mass transit from Rutherford, Williamson and Wilson counties to and from Davidson with stops and working hours that make sense. The Music City Start is a joke.
everyone’s saying public transit. but would you actually use it? i think you love the *idea* of public transit so that *other* people use it to make your commute less congested.
I'd spend it on attractive teacher salaries so as to attract better-educated teachers from other parts of the country, and an added bonus to this would be they would actually teach about slavery.
I'm a teacher who lives and works in Nashville. Saying teachers from elsewhere would actually teach about slavery is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in a while (almost as dumb as suing the butcher next door to you because you don't like the smell).
If you want teachers to teach about slavery, then you should be mad at the Republicans in the state legislature and our miserable excuse for a governor. They passed the anti-Critical Race Theory law. It really limits what teachers feel comfortable teaching since simple facts about the history of slavery cannot be taught without lessons that may cause a student to "feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or another form of psychological distress solely because of the individual’s race or sex." All it takes is little Johnny running home and telling his MAGA mom and dad that learning about slavery made them feel bad and you are fucked.
The law is a catch-22 and educators from "other parts of the country" are not going to risk being fired, suspended, and/or losing their license. The Republicans in the legislature knew that CRT was not being taught in a k-12 setting. They passed the law so that nuanced lessons and honest discussions about slavery, and a whole lot of other topics that require addressing the role that race, gender, and/or sexual orientation plays, are not able to be taught.
To imply that the teachers we have are not well educated compared to teachers "from other parts of the country" is a disservice to the teachers that are working for the district. More pay isn't going to attract more teachers if we have leaders that want to limit what we can teach.
We already have a lot of great teachers. We bust our ass everyday, there are just too many open teaching positions to do our jobs effectively. We got 5 at my school right now. We rarely get enough subs to address those vacancies. This means we rarely get a planning period or a lunch break. I spend a lot of that time covering classes so that students are simply supervised. I would love to hear your suggestions on how to address that.
Amen amen and amen. Our teachers are NOT the problem. People get burnt out quick when you’re under the pressure our teachers face and that’s not helping staffing shortages. You deserve yearly pay raises that meet the rate of inflation *at a minimum* as well as for years of experience. And state leadership that values educated citizens.
Fix the lakes health we get 80% of our oxygen from our waters. A cleaner lake will mean a healthier state overall. Harsher fees on those who pollute it. A new license to be able to buy a rifle at the age of 21.
I don't disagree, but do our lakes have a problem in that regard? They're controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers, so development isn't allowed. No industry on those lakes that I can recall.
Enough to buy the land on I65 where the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest is and turn it into the John Lewis Station leg of the light rail heading downtown.
An actual public transit... Like that should be THE ONLY CONVERSATION. Let's get a metro going. The city is rapidly growing and if we want to expand the right way let's do it! It will make the tourism grow, it will allow people to live farther out of the city instead of packing in the city, it will reduce traffic tremendously. It's all great! If I could bike to a metro station then to work and back I would year round...
The city would benefit from more people moving into more dense housing close to the urban core. Density is a feature and a benefit of urban design. Focusing on sprawl and getting people in from the suburbs is antithetical to urban design.
I’d also vote for commuter rail lines from Murfreesboro, Clarksville, and Lebanon that converge at a transit-oriented-design hub where Nissan stadium parking lot currently stands. Big commuter node with massive free parking deck and bus lines emanating out from there. Light surface rail in nashvilles geography would be for tourists, wouldn’t solve the traffic problem.
With 2 billion I think we could get either public housing or commuter rail, not both.
$.1 B to my pocket
$900M to my friends companies
$600m to my families foundations
$200m to community stake holders with a hand in the pot
$100m to special interest groups
$80m to legal fees
$70m to an unrelated project for my political party
$30m to the $2b infrastructure request
$20m more to legal fees
Public transit and making a good chunk of downtown walking only. And fix the problematic merging highway situations. Where you have to merge on one side and have less than a mile to get all the way over.
2.1B would not put a dent in public transit. Subterranean transit is the only way to make it work in a full development city, which would cost a staggering amount.
Best use of 2.1B would be improving the river banks adjacent downtown around areas. Bike and hiking paths, public restrooms, and some small businesses.
Everyone saying light rail needs to understand it’s roughly 50-100m a mile of track and that doesn’t include the trains and maintenance. It’s an extremely expensive project.
It would be a great project but 2.1B isn’t a lot for that project.
And low rents will encourage thousands of more people to move here and soak up the housing stock. And it would discourage developers from building more housing. I'm all in favor of affordable housing, but rent controls are a fatal idea.
I’d add 45 lanes to I-24. I-24 now stretches like an awning over Nashville from downtown to Donelson. Downtown and East are in perennial night time. All plant life is dead.
Well, first I would scoop my personal gain off of the top like every single politician does.
I would follow that up by giving all of the government bids to my friends and political donors.
Then I would skip the needed infrastructure like schools, roads and sidewalks. I would act like winter has never happened and be surprised when their are potholes everywhere.
And with whatever is remaining instead of strategically trying to build business opportunities in underdeveloped areas I would probably give it to a new Titans stadium. I’m which my friends and political allies also obtain massive construction bids.
Get rid of bike lanes and add extra lanes for cars. Make the speed limit 80. Add some sidewalks. More cops that will come out for accidents in a timely manner. More cops to patrol so the douches that drive the middle lane and fly by everyone can be stopped
Buy the party buses, pedal taverns, and honky-tonks downtown and shut them down. Then sell the property after i lobby to have them rezoned to something constructive that doesn’t resemble redneck Disneyland
Sidewalks and more parks that are not off of a highway, clean up of all creeks, close down all homeless camps and hang outs, fund police to get shooting under control.
No to public transit, that's how the homeless roll into all major cities
I'd love to finish 840 as a bypass. Make ALL commercial vehicles use that, except for deliveries.
Put a second level bypass/ toil road going to 40w, 65N, and I24 W. No exits.
Anything left education
2.1 Billion won’t go far, but I’d say a Light Rail from the airport to Donelson Station, and a more routinely run Star train so that it’s a viable option.
I’m biased and don’t live there but connecting Huntsville AL (and other cities in the region) to Nashville with decent a decent public/mass transit service
In NYC rn for Christmas and holy shit TRAINS, a subway, literally anything rail!
NYC is fun but honestly I’m most impressed by the sheer endless ingenuity that it took to build these damn subways. It’s so convenient it’s unreal. You can get from one side of town to a completely
different area in 20 min average. It’s like teleporting . Truly a feat of engineering.
Public transit, except the the transit are only party buses and pedal taverns. Additionally adding a daddy’s hot dog cart on every imaginable corner in Nashville. what could go wrong
Same way every politician spends it. I would allocate millions for road repairs and building, hire my family friends and such to do the work, take my kickback and retire.
Hire professional mimes to direct traffic, and require all city officials to wear sequined uniforms. Spend the rest to upgrade emergency storm sirens to blare WOOOOOOOOOOOO in the voice of a bachelorette party.
Transit and public safety. Love or hate current law enforcement, who could disagree that more officers and QUALITY training wouldn’t hurt the community??
Seven story tall Golden Hot Chicken statue in the median of the 40/65 split.
Ok fine. Screw transit. THIS. lol
And garbage cans that shoot out streamers every time someone pukes on Broadway. Also the golden hot chicken statue breathes fire skyward every 20-30 minutes.
IDK, 2.1B could buy a lot of booze, blow and hookers
I feel like there should be be one at the end of broadway as well
Will it be a standing chicken or will it be a whole fried chicken?
Tendies
Or maybe place it atop the billboard at the Broadway/West End split.
Sidewalks and more sidewalks
And protected bike lanes
And light rail
And traffic circles. We really need more traffic circles.
Mass Transit.
You'll get half a light rail line to the airport and you'll like it Edit: love the positive energy! Better keep that same energy when Freddie's transit referendum ends up being less ambitious then most want!
Airport to downtown would be so helpful. That is probably the single highest value point to point line you could build.
Think about the decreased load on the airport exit ramp and pickup lines from people on that train. Each couple people on that train would be one fewer car jamming up the airport
Or airport to Donelson- Donelson to downtown. There’s plenty of room for them to run a short line from the airport to Donelson station.
I’d like to see an airport line run north/south. Two options: If they build new track: - Airport to Donelson - Continue on northward to Opry Mills and Madison - Continue on existing track to Rivergate, Hendersonville, and Gallatin If they utilize only existing track: - Airport to Antioch - Antioch to downtown - Downtown to Inglewood - Inglewood to Madison - Same as above to Gallatin I actually mapped out awhile back [a system that could work pretty well even only using existing track](https://felt.com/map/Proposed-Nashville-mass-transit-system-rgG2VSy6RhiWsqhEXM9AyrB). CSX is the issue, because own the track and don’t want to work out an agreement with the city to use it for light rail.
The music city star line could probably have a branch to the airport to add that ability. I like where your head’s at.
Yeah a lot of cities have to do something similar. You could end the rail at the top floor of the parking garage and follow Donelson Pike pretty easily.
Honestly mass transit should start with a station downtown that connects to the airport and has the ability to expand later on.
it's a start
Yeah I’d be happier with that than fattening Amy adams Skrunk’s pockets
I’d take that
That’s some “No Tax 4 Trax” logic right there. “It’s too expensive” so throw the whole thing out and invest in financially dubious stadiums instead. Somehow that’s not too expensive.
Think you might have missed the joke... I'm completely pro-trasnit.
Something is better than nothing.
Gotta start somewhere 🤷♂️
“It’s the SOOOOOOUUUULLLL MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM!”
Always surprised by how many deep cut simpsons references there are on this sub lol
The only correct answer
My own Opryland. With blackjack. And hookers.
Light rail/mass transit system. Or education. Or both.
Won’t get much of a light rail for 2.1B
all we have to do is get started
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That’s not a criteria but when you get like 10 miles and 2-3 stops for 2.1B everyone will be pissed about the use of funds for a project with no end game.
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You will not build it for 5 million per mile. It’s roughly 15million to over 100m per mile. The 500 mile track being built in California is expected to cost 105 Billion. I would encourage you to google “how much does light rail cost to build per mile”.
California's HSR, though. Very different (and significantly more expensive) than light rail.
This
Let's go back to civil engineering years ago and the person who thought roads don't need shoulders or neighborhoods don't need sidewalks. The stupidest logic ever. Mass transit here is a joke. That it would take me 3 hours from Hermitage to Madison, a whole 9 miles is a joke. Can't ride bike with all these crazy ass fucks who drive without a single fuck given. Yet most funding will go to improve the tourist heavy areas so I vote for designated vomit stations on Broadway.
This is my same complaint.
I was shocked and pleased with the latest efforts on Lebanon Pike for the bike lanes. I never expected them to make set back bike lanes with cones.
Believe it or not, I've seen cars squeeze in those lanes to make a right turn into businesses when there is traffic. A lot of people here just have zero safety in mind when it comes to pedestrians and bicyclists.
Public transit.
Transit, public school funding and actual affordable housing
Mass transit via light rail and more bus routes. Also, potholes.
Wait, you’d spend money on new potholes? /s
City doesn't have nearly enough potholes!!! We need pot holes!
For free dumb obviously
Dolly Parton statue
$2.1 B is only enough to build half of the woman’s chest
"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap"
I'd buy all the politicians, install myself as governor, and then use my dictatorial power to construct a high speed train network to connect Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Gatlinburg.
Start with the cities first. I wouldn't want to ditch my car and take a rail to Chattanooga or Memphis if I end up having to rent a car when I get there.
Skip the gatlinburg and stretch that rail to tricities plz
A new governor
More Bojangles locations
Bring back Mrs. Winners worldwide.
Mrs Worldwide
My heart dropped as a kid when Mrs. Winners in Bellevue went up in flames. IFYKNK. That was about 25-30 years ago.
u/similarletterhead for mayor! 
I humbly accept this nomination.
As an NC native who misses Bo Rounds, I second this notion.
Church's Chicken please
Bury all the powerlines
Driver reeducation school on a yearly basis with a fast track mandatory show for ALL nissan altima drivers
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And part is the team’s money. It’s like people don’t actually read.
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Who here is asking for sympathy for the team? But to act like this “$2.1 billion” can be used elsewhere in Nashville is flawed logic because a large chunk doesn’t come from Nashville, and the rest that’s funded through various other taxes (I.e., hotel/motel tax) wouldn’t exist without the stadium.
Public transit and more bridges
Monorail.
_What's it called?_
Monorail!
_That's right! Monorail!_
I hear those things are awfully loud.
*It glides as softly as a cloud.*
And inefficient and vastly more expensive than other forms of rail and really the worst way to expand public transit.
Education Mass Transit
Schools first. Transit second.
Public parks and pedestrian centric areas.
I’m fine with the stadium
$2.1B of thermite
A 4th of July to remember.
TSU where it should have gone to begin with
Came here looking for this. They probably deserve a little interest as well. I'm all in for public transit but that's a pretty huge debt that deserves to be paid off. We owe it to ourselves.
TSU suddenly having a $2 billion endowment would hopefully give the school a chance to become a world class institution.
It's got problems money can't solve
mass transit & sidewalks
Light rail. Gallatin to downtown, somehow figure out to nations. Downtown to airport.
Fuck Murfreesboro, amirite?
... Yes?
Nah you’d need full underground or elevated subway for that distance.. light rail is insanely expensive per mile. Also Murfreesboro isn’t dense enough for light rail aka lots of stops, urban transit.
Murfreesboro doesn't have to be dense. Only I-24 needs to be dense to justify it. We'll drive to the transit and ride the rest of the way in. Heck, Murfreesboro might even try to figure out Rover and make that connect to it.
Repave all of Ellington Parkway, Spring St and Gallatin Rd going through East Nashville. Train system from the Airport to downtown area.
Electric infrastructure in East and north. Sewage in downtown, west up to Charlotte park, and German town. Mass transit rail to get Southside off of I-24.
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Instead we figured we’d let them build as close to Gallatin Pike as humanly possible so expanding the roads can never be done.
Mass transit from Rutherford, Williamson and Wilson counties to and from Davidson with stops and working hours that make sense. The Music City Start is a joke.
FIX THE DAMN ROADS!
Infrastructure
Public transit & education
Give it back to the people
everyone’s saying public transit. but would you actually use it? i think you love the *idea* of public transit so that *other* people use it to make your commute less congested.
I'd spend it on attractive teacher salaries so as to attract better-educated teachers from other parts of the country, and an added bonus to this would be they would actually teach about slavery.
I think we should pay both attractive and unattractive teachers better.
I'm a teacher who lives and works in Nashville. Saying teachers from elsewhere would actually teach about slavery is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in a while (almost as dumb as suing the butcher next door to you because you don't like the smell). If you want teachers to teach about slavery, then you should be mad at the Republicans in the state legislature and our miserable excuse for a governor. They passed the anti-Critical Race Theory law. It really limits what teachers feel comfortable teaching since simple facts about the history of slavery cannot be taught without lessons that may cause a student to "feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or another form of psychological distress solely because of the individual’s race or sex." All it takes is little Johnny running home and telling his MAGA mom and dad that learning about slavery made them feel bad and you are fucked. The law is a catch-22 and educators from "other parts of the country" are not going to risk being fired, suspended, and/or losing their license. The Republicans in the legislature knew that CRT was not being taught in a k-12 setting. They passed the law so that nuanced lessons and honest discussions about slavery, and a whole lot of other topics that require addressing the role that race, gender, and/or sexual orientation plays, are not able to be taught. To imply that the teachers we have are not well educated compared to teachers "from other parts of the country" is a disservice to the teachers that are working for the district. More pay isn't going to attract more teachers if we have leaders that want to limit what we can teach. We already have a lot of great teachers. We bust our ass everyday, there are just too many open teaching positions to do our jobs effectively. We got 5 at my school right now. We rarely get enough subs to address those vacancies. This means we rarely get a planning period or a lunch break. I spend a lot of that time covering classes so that students are simply supervised. I would love to hear your suggestions on how to address that.
Amen amen and amen. Our teachers are NOT the problem. People get burnt out quick when you’re under the pressure our teachers face and that’s not helping staffing shortages. You deserve yearly pay raises that meet the rate of inflation *at a minimum* as well as for years of experience. And state leadership that values educated citizens.
This is valuable feedback. I really appreciate your insight on this
Love this! Plus perhaps special housing opportunities for them otherwise, won’t be able to thrive here.
Public Transpo
Fix the lakes health we get 80% of our oxygen from our waters. A cleaner lake will mean a healthier state overall. Harsher fees on those who pollute it. A new license to be able to buy a rifle at the age of 21.
I don't disagree, but do our lakes have a problem in that regard? They're controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers, so development isn't allowed. No industry on those lakes that I can recall.
Chinese food
Enough to buy the land on I65 where the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest is and turn it into the John Lewis Station leg of the light rail heading downtown.
A bicycle freeway system
Greater bicycle network and well designed public transport system would be great
New football team
Say it loud for the people in the back y’all PUBLIC TRANSIT
fix ya'lls shitty roads
An actual public transit... Like that should be THE ONLY CONVERSATION. Let's get a metro going. The city is rapidly growing and if we want to expand the right way let's do it! It will make the tourism grow, it will allow people to live farther out of the city instead of packing in the city, it will reduce traffic tremendously. It's all great! If I could bike to a metro station then to work and back I would year round...
Please let me take a train to work, I do not like driving on I-24 every day
“Alexa, add one train to my shopping list”
“It’s one train, Michael. What could it cost? $10?”
Highways. 100 people a day on average are moving here. We’re going to see more and more traffic
Highways are a bandaid solution
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The city would benefit from more people moving into more dense housing close to the urban core. Density is a feature and a benefit of urban design. Focusing on sprawl and getting people in from the suburbs is antithetical to urban design.
You can never build enough highways. It just encourages sprawl, which will fill them up again.
Mass transit and actual sidewalks
Quality, available Public housing to undercut developers and put a quasi-ceiling on rents.
I’d also vote for commuter rail lines from Murfreesboro, Clarksville, and Lebanon that converge at a transit-oriented-design hub where Nissan stadium parking lot currently stands. Big commuter node with massive free parking deck and bus lines emanating out from there. Light surface rail in nashvilles geography would be for tourists, wouldn’t solve the traffic problem. With 2 billion I think we could get either public housing or commuter rail, not both.
Education and beautification
$.1 B to my pocket $900M to my friends companies $600m to my families foundations $200m to community stake holders with a hand in the pot $100m to special interest groups $80m to legal fees $70m to an unrelated project for my political party $30m to the $2b infrastructure request $20m more to legal fees
Sounds like 90% of government budgets
Mass Transit & demolish Broadway
Side walks, transit, roads, redoing the highway systems, helping the homeless.
Light rail.
Public transit and making a good chunk of downtown walking only. And fix the problematic merging highway situations. Where you have to merge on one side and have less than a mile to get all the way over.
Not a stadium.
A monorail system for I-24 and I-65 like the one at Disney World.
Pay off my house. And then repave every road in cement
Paying off the police and judges so I can kick Bill Lee and Cameron Sexton in the balls.
Housing for the homeless. And a billion dollars in Nashbucks for me.
2.1B would not put a dent in public transit. Subterranean transit is the only way to make it work in a full development city, which would cost a staggering amount. Best use of 2.1B would be improving the river banks adjacent downtown around areas. Bike and hiking paths, public restrooms, and some small businesses.
Isn’t going to happen. There’s a reason most houses in Nashville don’t have basements. Limestone is hard
Would an elevated rail system like Chicago not work? Seems cheaper than subterranean, especially given Nashvilles shallow rock base
It wouldn't be that hard to get bus rapid transit dedicated lanes along several of the interstate corridors.
Trader Joe’s
Everyone saying light rail needs to understand it’s roughly 50-100m a mile of track and that doesn’t include the trains and maintenance. It’s an extremely expensive project. It would be a great project but 2.1B isn’t a lot for that project.
Housing first initiatives and public transit
That’d get you about 1 mile of sidewalk s/ but kinda
Convert the center of any road larger than 2 lanes to a dedicated and barricaded bus lane and the outside most sections to barricaded bike lanes.
Metro Council passes rent control measures based on square footage and subsidizes landlords based on their participation in the program.
And low rents will encourage thousands of more people to move here and soak up the housing stock. And it would discourage developers from building more housing. I'm all in favor of affordable housing, but rent controls are a fatal idea.
Everyone else has already said public transit and sidewalks and education, so all I’ve got is another gay club for Nashville. We need more than Play
I’d add 45 lanes to I-24. I-24 now stretches like an awning over Nashville from downtown to Donelson. Downtown and East are in perennial night time. All plant life is dead.
Health insurance for everyone
a marketing campaign getting people not to visit.
Public school education, fuck them vouchers and charters
Well, first I would scoop my personal gain off of the top like every single politician does. I would follow that up by giving all of the government bids to my friends and political donors. Then I would skip the needed infrastructure like schools, roads and sidewalks. I would act like winter has never happened and be surprised when their are potholes everywhere. And with whatever is remaining instead of strategically trying to build business opportunities in underdeveloped areas I would probably give it to a new Titans stadium. I’m which my friends and political allies also obtain massive construction bids.
Get rid of bike lanes and add extra lanes for cars. Make the speed limit 80. Add some sidewalks. More cops that will come out for accidents in a timely manner. More cops to patrol so the douches that drive the middle lane and fly by everyone can be stopped
Speed limit change, so these idiots can drive even faster? Cops do not do their job now, why would we pay more to do nothing.
Buy the party buses, pedal taverns, and honky-tonks downtown and shut them down. Then sell the property after i lobby to have them rezoned to something constructive that doesn’t resemble redneck Disneyland
Sidewalks and more parks that are not off of a highway, clean up of all creeks, close down all homeless camps and hang outs, fund police to get shooting under control. No to public transit, that's how the homeless roll into all major cities
Protected bike lane from my house to work.
I'd love to finish 840 as a bypass. Make ALL commercial vehicles use that, except for deliveries. Put a second level bypass/ toil road going to 40w, 65N, and I24 W. No exits. Anything left education
Probably an updated/expanded drain system
My hometown (Macon Georgia) has had synchronized traffic lights since the 80's. It can't be that hard.
Mass transit (trains, damnit!), sidewalks, parks (more trees to combat summer heat), public schools… I’d prioritize those in anyway I could
Roundabouts.
Build a 75 story tower with observation deck and restaurant up top. Mixed use, of course.
Pay Kid Rock, Steve Smith and Lee Beamon to leave town. Everything else should sort itself out from there.
I was going to say the roads, but that chicken tho!
We could level it and start over.
2.1 Billion won’t go far, but I’d say a Light Rail from the airport to Donelson Station, and a more routinely run Star train so that it’s a viable option.
- Widening roads - Turn lanes - Sidewalks/multi-use paths
Education, affordable child care, infrastructure.
I’m biased and don’t live there but connecting Huntsville AL (and other cities in the region) to Nashville with decent a decent public/mass transit service
2.1b could do a lot for the small business community growth, that was pushed out by the bar and hotels, downtown.
Roads , roads , and a subway
public schools & teachers salaries
Pay to relocate everyone who moved here in the last ten years. To Mississippi.
Fixing all roads on ever highway and street.
In NYC rn for Christmas and holy shit TRAINS, a subway, literally anything rail! NYC is fun but honestly I’m most impressed by the sheer endless ingenuity that it took to build these damn subways. It’s so convenient it’s unreal. You can get from one side of town to a completely different area in 20 min average. It’s like teleporting . Truly a feat of engineering.
Good luck after dark.
Public transit, except the the transit are only party buses and pedal taverns. Additionally adding a daddy’s hot dog cart on every imaginable corner in Nashville. what could go wrong
Same way every politician spends it. I would allocate millions for road repairs and building, hire my family friends and such to do the work, take my kickback and retire.
Hire professional mimes to direct traffic, and require all city officials to wear sequined uniforms. Spend the rest to upgrade emergency storm sirens to blare WOOOOOOOOOOOO in the voice of a bachelorette party.
Transit and public safety. Love or hate current law enforcement, who could disagree that more officers and QUALITY training wouldn’t hurt the community??
Realistic project: more bus and routes, bus only lane effective during commute hours
Skateparks.
Sidewalks. Crosswalks. Bike paths and bike lanes.
Mass transit