Nashville’s Choose How You Move (CHYM) initiative has announced a $100 million capital commitment to enhance the city’s transportation, traffic and transit operations.
Building on past investments in transportation improvements, the city will move forward with expanded sidewalks, safety enhancements, modernized traffic signals, better transit infrastructure and service and improved corridors. With the latest investment, CHYM has allocated $220 million in total to critical transportation projects.
The funding will be distributed across multiple categories, including:
- Transit service and infrastructure – $29.8 million.
- Safety – $22.4 million.
- Signals and traffic operations – $19 million.
- Sidewalks – $16.8 million.
- All-access corridors – $7.7 million.
The transit service and infrastructure allocation will enable the city to expand its transit network, building dedicated facilities, infrastructure and fleets dedicated to improved connectivity and transit. A total of $25.3 million will go toward expanding transit centers, including building the Donelson Transit Center and supporting future site selection and development.
Plans include spending $3.7 million to improve WeGo’s Nestor Street operations and maintenance facility. The remaining $750,000 will help expand the access fleet with three new paratransit vehicles.
The $22.4 million slated for safety initiatives will entirely go toward Complete Streets projects that promote safer crossings, protected bikeways, accessible sidewalks and other transit-supportive enhancements. This will include building the Edgehill Avenue Complete Street project and designing four similar projects across 8 miles. In addition, the city will begin a survey covering almost 34 miles of Complete Street projects.
For signals and traffic operations, Nashville will dedicate $7.9 million to modernize corridor signals, including installing 99 new traffic signals to enhance safety, reduce delays and support reliable travel. Another $4.5 million will allow the city to install network hardware capable of real-time data sharing and preparing for future intelligent mobility technology.
The city will spend $3 million on its signal network, buying long-lead hardware needed to accelerate construction and signal modernization. The remaining $2 million will go toward advanced traffic management systems. This will include deploying signals for real-time traffic management, advanced bike and pedestrian recognition, incident response, transit signal priority and smarter operations across the city.
Nashville is prioritizing 61 sidewalks in various phases of development across the city. The $16.8 million will go toward fast-tracking 17 projects into planning and design, as well as investing in new technology to better identify utilities. Aside from conducting survey and data work on 34 other sidewalk initiatives, the city will advance planning and design on four additional sidewalks. Additional work will consist of engineering, utility coordination, right-of-way acquisition, railroad coordination and construction management.
The final $7.7 million dedicated to All-Access Corridors will target the city’s busiest roadways. A total of $4.5 million will be used for planning and project development along Nolensville Pike, with a separate $1.5 million for the same work along Gallatin Pike. The final $500,000 will enable the city to develop a transit-oriented development study for the future of high-quality transit.
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