NashTransit

So what can be done? The Metro budget is settled, MTA is short a few million dollars, and I expect there's little to change that at this late date.

There's a series of public hearings coming up and it would be good to show up with something other than a personal request that they pick on someone else's route. I'm not a transit planner or an economist, but couldn't the pain be spread around... a little more evenly?

The timing of these cuts is also irritating because they'll come just in time for the new $53 million Music City Central transfer station. With that much public money spent on the building, MTA shouldn't have to open it while hurting for normal operating funds.

Meanwhile, at the terminus of the (potentially doomed) #1 Vine Hill route is 100 Oaks, The Mall That Wouldn't Die. Preparations there are well underway for Vanderbilt Medical to open up new medical offices there, spurring lots of new commercial development in the area. This route really shouldn't go away.

_{And I'm totally not being self-serving about that last bit. Not in the least. No siree Bob, not me.}

# posted by dotsandlines @ 11:21 PM