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Nashville Mass Transit Week: April 13-19

13 April 2009 | 8:00 am
Author: Morgan Levy

Today marks the beginning of Nashville’s Mass Transit Week, a week dedicated to introducing folks in Nashville to that foreign idea called Taking The Bus (no, not a tour bus), as well as “raising awareness of the benefits of regional mass transit options for the people living in the Nashville area” (via Transit Now Nashville). For each day of the week, Transit Now Nashville has created either an event or an actionable goal for Nashvillians who would like to learn and participate more in mass transit options around town. 

So take the pledge to ride the bus this week as we take steps as a community to improve our somewhat dismal public transportation system. It starts with us, right? 

P.S. – If you need a little help getting excited about hopping on the bus, give their catchy new jingle a listen. Who could hate the bus after that?!

Photo by Paul Nicholson. 

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  • Check out our new "Riding the Bus in Nashville" video, just posted today at www.transitnownashville.org.
  • Matt W
    It's true, I tried riding it before, but due to the inane and under-developed routing it does literally add hours to your trip. Furthermore, their online "Trip Planner" doesn't even work! MTA will get users when they create an actually helpful system. Until then they can have all of the awareness weeks they want. All it will do is make people aware of how useless it is.
  • I wish i could take the bus to work again. I am one of the rare few that both lives and works near metro bus lines. Trouble is taking the bus adds more than an hour to my daily commute time (vs. the same commute in my car). I loved taking the bus for a while (relaxing, time to read, etc) but it just takes too much valuable time out of my day :-(

    I do recommend that people try it if they never have. The system in Nashville is an inefficient hub/spoke model (you have to take the bus in to downtown to transfer to another line), and the cost could be better, but the over all experience really isn't bad at all.
  • Thanks for this comment, Paul. I love hearing from people who actually use the public transportation in this town... You are few and far between! Me, I wish I could take the bus, but since I work in Cool Springs it's not an option for the majority of my daily driving. Props to you for actually utilizing the bus system in Nashville, frustrating as it may be!
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