Nashvilles WeGo Public Transit Is Coming Back Strong with New Innovations

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 1 p.m.

Paul travelled to Nashville, TN to talk with Nashville MTA CEO Steve Bland and his leadership team about all the improvements and innovations they've done in the past year. From safety to route planning to stations and stops, there is little that they haven't improved on.

Which is, of course, music to our ears.

This episode was also filmed for an upcoming episode of Transit Unplugged TV. 

People you will hear:

  • Steve Bland, Nashville MTA CEO
  • Approaches to COVID Response and Workplace Safety \u2013 Nick Oldham
  • Better Bus and Service Restoration Reshuffling \u2013 Felix Castrodad and Katie Freudberg
  • Stop Improvement Program and the Nolensville Pike Bike/Transit Corridor \u2013 Trey Walker and Lydia Benda
  • Transit Signal Priority and our Emerging Headway Management System in the Charlotte Corridor \u2013 Dan Freudberg & Lydia Benda
  • WeGo Link \u2013 Dan Freudberg
  • Telling our Story and Getting Riders Back \u2013 Renuka Christoph

Next week we're getting behind the wheel of micro transit with Waymo and Transdev.