RUSSIA is exploiting the racial divide in the United States as you read this. Do not allow yourself to be baited by the spies. They are creating chaos on purpose. Remember these things. America is the greatest nation on earth. It is one of the most fair, richest countries ever established and it got this way by being diverse. Do not buy the putin charismatic charm garbage of placing Hitler posters over Black history month posters at Knoxville. These are idiots who are being mainpulated by the russian government. How to fight back is to resist the garbage. Think! Allowing yourself to be divided is what they want and in doing so you are hurting America. Putin is a wolf, the wolf in sheeps clothing. He has charisma. He is anti American. He is evil.
Light rail fan - 6 years ago
No question, we've got a huge transportation problem in the county, but this plan is not the solution.
It's far too expensive, poorly thought out, and doesn't actually solve the county's transportation issues.
Our political leadership (such as it is) should go back to the drawing board.
Wade Putnam - 6 years ago
If the supposed price tag is now $5.9 billion,it will be $15 billion when done and that doesn't include the $100 million a year operating and maintenance cost.
This will be a money loser that the taxpayers will always be supporting.
If it was going to make so much money, why would a private investor not be stepping up to build it.
Nashville will be broke, just like Chicago and all of the other democratic run cities and the tax payers will bear the burden.
I have lived Nashville for seventy years and this is not what Nashville needs.
How long has Mayor Barry lived here?
Bob - 6 years ago
Cheaper to build transit train above ground like in Japan. They have a fabulous system.
IEATBUBBLES - 6 years ago
Lol @Carl Anderson!
We are going to vote...in May, if this is passed.
I'm quite sure that those of us who actually live in Davidson county will mostly vote yes.
We are the ones who have to deal with all this rush-hour traffic everyday just to get around our neighborhoods.
All of these people coming from neighboring counties are flooding our roads every weekday.
Something has got to be done, unless we want tollways.
Trying to force businesses to alter business hours is laughable!
carl anderson - 6 years ago
Also, if a "normal and ethical" government employee (fed...state..city) what our mayor did would be kicked to the curb...UNSAT and totally unethical. I support investigation and consequences.........
carl anderson - 6 years ago
This something that we taxpayers should be able to vote on...taxpayers getting hosed and plenty of lobbyists and contractors LINING THEIR POCKETS...said it before and will say it again...responsible businesses should schedule shifts outside of rush hour...simple and inexpensive alternate. Come on our (?) representatives (and don't think about re-election)...consider your constituents and not the FAT CATS...if you screw us on this it is GOODBYE DAVIDSON COUNTY. Used to be a decent place to live........................
Military Brat - 6 years ago
NO to this Entire Pile Of 5 Billion $$Dollars CRAP!! Mayor Barry needs to GO and take her Nonsensical Plan with her!!! Barry doesn’t really care about Nashvillians. She just wants Her Name on this Huge Project and wants to be “Remembered” for it!! Well, She will already be Remembered by her Affair with the Police Officer that WE, the Taxpayers, Paid For to be her Dang “Security”!! HA!! Megan Barry needs to Resign NOW!! C’Mon Metro Council Members........Do Your Dang Jobs and make her Step DOWN!!!! Smdh #ResignNOW #StepDown
Larry Hester - 6 years ago
Sine most of the people who have commented have either never taken the bus or not lived here as long as I have are thinking that the plan will not work, don't know that on most days it can take almost an hour to get to downtown from Bell Road and Murfreesboro Road.to 2nd Avenue. What they want to do should have been done 30 years ago. No matter what employers do the traffic will not get better. I as much 56 and have lived in Nashville all my life, and have watched the traffic get worse, so we need to change everything to get it all fixed.
GovtTakesTheMoney - 6 years ago
I agree with JB that if government officials would meet with the company heads of the largest employers in the area and stagger their work hours it would immediately relieve the congestion on the highways. Of course that means the 3 hole Hootchie Momma Megan Barry wouldn't leave a legacy of a multi-billion dollar boondoggle. China has already developed the drone taxis that can take off and land anywhere and in the very near future can carry a minimum of 8 passengers. Can you imagine just 100 drone taxis picking up workers and dropping them at the door of their workplace? That would remove 800 vehicles a day with just 100 of these aerial taxis. Any solution other than drilling thru underground rock is better than this tax and spend lunacy.
Roger Koehn - 6 years ago
Dean and Barry both are trying to fix a regional problem with a local fix. We have buses and taxis to move people around town. What we need is rail into town from every direction except Wilson County and eastern Davidson County. I will admit we need a terminus for the rail, but what these two mayors are proposing doesn’t address even that. I thought the monorail down I-24 was a great idea that got shot down. The government of all the surrounding counties needs to have collective meetings and engineering to solve this regional issue and fast.
Megan B - 6 years ago
But think of all those cute construction workers!
JB - 6 years ago
It would help if the employers in and around town got together and agree to different start times for employees, 5-9am, that would go along ways to ease congestion so everybody isn't coming in to town at the same time
JoSixPak - 6 years ago
And, this will rise from 5 quadrillion million dollars to 25 quadrillion trillion dollars in no time. A colossal liberal tax everybody to death mess.
And, Mayor Barry, are you meeting your paramours in that stupid bum tunnel you want to drill beneath downtown? Is that the only thing you will drill there?
JoSixPak - 6 years ago
This tax and spend nightmare is as reckless as our insane and over-pollinated mayor.
IEATBUBBLES - 6 years ago
To all of the perpetual nay-sayers, what do you think is a good solution?
Do you deny we have a problem?
RUSSIA is exploiting the racial divide in the United States as you read this. Do not allow yourself to be baited by the spies. They are creating chaos on purpose. Remember these things. America is the greatest nation on earth. It is one of the most fair, richest countries ever established and it got this way by being diverse. Do not buy the putin charismatic charm garbage of placing Hitler posters over Black history month posters at Knoxville. These are idiots who are being mainpulated by the russian government. How to fight back is to resist the garbage. Think! Allowing yourself to be divided is what they want and in doing so you are hurting America. Putin is a wolf, the wolf in sheeps clothing. He has charisma. He is anti American. He is evil.
No question, we've got a huge transportation problem in the county, but this plan is not the solution.
It's far too expensive, poorly thought out, and doesn't actually solve the county's transportation issues.
Our political leadership (such as it is) should go back to the drawing board.
If the supposed price tag is now $5.9 billion,it will be $15 billion when done and that doesn't include the $100 million a year operating and maintenance cost.
This will be a money loser that the taxpayers will always be supporting.
If it was going to make so much money, why would a private investor not be stepping up to build it.
Nashville will be broke, just like Chicago and all of the other democratic run cities and the tax payers will bear the burden.
I have lived Nashville for seventy years and this is not what Nashville needs.
How long has Mayor Barry lived here?
Cheaper to build transit train above ground like in Japan. They have a fabulous system.
Lol @Carl Anderson!
We are going to vote...in May, if this is passed.
I'm quite sure that those of us who actually live in Davidson county will mostly vote yes.
We are the ones who have to deal with all this rush-hour traffic everyday just to get around our neighborhoods.
All of these people coming from neighboring counties are flooding our roads every weekday.
Something has got to be done, unless we want tollways.
Trying to force businesses to alter business hours is laughable!
Also, if a "normal and ethical" government employee (fed...state..city) what our mayor did would be kicked to the curb...UNSAT and totally unethical. I support investigation and consequences.........
This something that we taxpayers should be able to vote on...taxpayers getting hosed and plenty of lobbyists and contractors LINING THEIR POCKETS...said it before and will say it again...responsible businesses should schedule shifts outside of rush hour...simple and inexpensive alternate. Come on our (?) representatives (and don't think about re-election)...consider your constituents and not the FAT CATS...if you screw us on this it is GOODBYE DAVIDSON COUNTY. Used to be a decent place to live........................
NO to this Entire Pile Of 5 Billion $$Dollars CRAP!! Mayor Barry needs to GO and take her Nonsensical Plan with her!!! Barry doesn’t really care about Nashvillians. She just wants Her Name on this Huge Project and wants to be “Remembered” for it!! Well, She will already be Remembered by her Affair with the Police Officer that WE, the Taxpayers, Paid For to be her Dang “Security”!! HA!! Megan Barry needs to Resign NOW!! C’Mon Metro Council Members........Do Your Dang Jobs and make her Step DOWN!!!! Smdh #ResignNOW #StepDown
Sine most of the people who have commented have either never taken the bus or not lived here as long as I have are thinking that the plan will not work, don't know that on most days it can take almost an hour to get to downtown from Bell Road and Murfreesboro Road.to 2nd Avenue. What they want to do should have been done 30 years ago. No matter what employers do the traffic will not get better. I as much 56 and have lived in Nashville all my life, and have watched the traffic get worse, so we need to change everything to get it all fixed.
I agree with JB that if government officials would meet with the company heads of the largest employers in the area and stagger their work hours it would immediately relieve the congestion on the highways. Of course that means the 3 hole Hootchie Momma Megan Barry wouldn't leave a legacy of a multi-billion dollar boondoggle. China has already developed the drone taxis that can take off and land anywhere and in the very near future can carry a minimum of 8 passengers. Can you imagine just 100 drone taxis picking up workers and dropping them at the door of their workplace? That would remove 800 vehicles a day with just 100 of these aerial taxis. Any solution other than drilling thru underground rock is better than this tax and spend lunacy.
Dean and Barry both are trying to fix a regional problem with a local fix. We have buses and taxis to move people around town. What we need is rail into town from every direction except Wilson County and eastern Davidson County. I will admit we need a terminus for the rail, but what these two mayors are proposing doesn’t address even that. I thought the monorail down I-24 was a great idea that got shot down. The government of all the surrounding counties needs to have collective meetings and engineering to solve this regional issue and fast.
But think of all those cute construction workers!
It would help if the employers in and around town got together and agree to different start times for employees, 5-9am, that would go along ways to ease congestion so everybody isn't coming in to town at the same time
And, this will rise from 5 quadrillion million dollars to 25 quadrillion trillion dollars in no time. A colossal liberal tax everybody to death mess.
And, Mayor Barry, are you meeting your paramours in that stupid bum tunnel you want to drill beneath downtown? Is that the only thing you will drill there?
This tax and spend nightmare is as reckless as our insane and over-pollinated mayor.
To all of the perpetual nay-sayers, what do you think is a good solution?
Do you deny we have a problem?