Archinect - News2024-12-21T13:54:56-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/119064095/special-interest-money-kills-nashville-s-amp-brt-aspirations
Special interest money kills Nashville's "Amp" BRT aspirations Alexander Walter2015-01-23T20:25:00-05:00>2015-02-02T19:07:42-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a0/a09cyuli2y83ylz4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Nashville’s bid to build its first high-capacity transit line is dead, the Tennessean is reporting today. It’s a victory for the Koch brothers-funded local chapter of Americans for Prosperity and a defeat for the city’s near-term hopes of transitioning to less congested, more sustainable streets.
The project, known as the Amp, called for a 7-mile busway linking growing East Nashville to downtown and parts of the city’s west end.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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