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We Can Do Better Than the Nashville Transit Plan

We Can Do Better Than the Nashville Transit Plan by Richard J Grant   The proposed Nashville mass transit plan is not exactly what we would call a “lean startup.” With an optimistically estimated cost of $9 billion to be spent over the next 15 years, the new transit plan makes the Metro Nashville 2018 budget of only $2.2 billion look lean by comparison. If the transit money were spent evenly over 15 years, that would be $600 million per year of additional spending, a 27% increase over the existing budget. The trouble with the transit plan is ... Continue reading at the Tennessee Star http://tennesseestar.com/2018/04/02/richard-grant-commentary-we-can-do-better-than-the-nashville-transit-plan/