‘Choose How You Move’ is designed to make getting around the city easier and more convenient, no matter how we choose to travel. A new interactive feature unveiled by Mayor Freddie O’Connell and his transportation team gives a detailed look at how the program improves connections to key community assets like grocery stores, libraries, parks, schools, commercial areas, the Fairgrounds, and more.
“These maps show Nashvillians exactly what would be coming to their neighborhood,” Mayor Freddie O’Connell said. “Choose How You Move improves connections to where we want to go no matter how we travel.
In the new interactive maps, you can see how social connections are made between transportation and assets like schools, parks, and libraries.
“Nashvillians face a critical choice on November 5. It’s time to turn plans into action and give Nashvillians back time with their friends and family instead of spending it just trying to get to them.”
In the November 5 election, Davidson County voters will have the opportunity to vote on whether to implement the Choose How You Move Transportation Improvement Program. The program is designed using ideas from the community to improve the way we all move about Nashville. Nashvillians shared more than 66,000 ideas over more than a decade about how to improve travel. Mayor O’Connell and the transportation team used those ideas to develop a program that would build 86 miles of sidewalk connections; install smart, synchronized traffic signals at nearly 600 intersections; provide 24/7/365 transit service that runs more frequently, includes improved transit infrastructure, and creates more crosstown routes so we aren’t traveling downtown for every transit trip; and improves safety at multiple high-risk intersections so we all are a little safer when we travel. Those improvements will also help reduce pressures on neighborhoods and community amenities which are in high demand but lack sidewalks, transit stops, and other infrastructure around them.
The maps show how the elements included in Choose How You Move connect the places Nashvillians go to daily. Schools, libraries, parks, shopping, and housing are daily needs. Within a walkable neighborhood, they also provide opportunities to catch up with friends or meet new neighbors.
The maps also allow residents to sort by improvement type, by neighborhood or by council district.
Choose How You Move would be financed through a half-penny sales tax, bringing Davidson County’s sales tax rate to the same level as all but one of the surrounding counties, and sharing the cost of the improvements with tourists and out-of-county visitors who already pay approximately 60% of the city’s sales tax revenue.
