tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post7769577146028736687..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: 1,500+ people attended 5 BRT meetings, but the Metro Transit Authority is only going to meet with individual businesses about the Amp proposalS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-10504516642790702212014-02-06T11:17:30.632-06:002014-02-06T11:17:30.632-06:00Traffic on West End west of 440 is bad two times e...Traffic on West End west of 440 is bad two times each weekday, for about 45 minutes each time. I can drive down that stretch at 6:00 p.m. and it will be near-empty going west. I find weekend traffic to be a little worse, or more unpredictable.<br /><br />A radical solution that takes away lanes from traffic on West End (or takes away private property and/or sidewalks) is not needed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-58465413868113423452014-02-05T15:21:16.013-06:002014-02-05T15:21:16.013-06:00Mike, they met with neighborhood associations last...Mike, they met with neighborhood associations last summer, but it was a sales presentation. The AMP team--usually Ed Cole and Cyril Stewart--represented the AMPers, and a couple of AMP opponents, usually attorney Dianne Neal and Malcolm Getz, a VU economist who thinks the AMP is based on shaky research, would make the case against it. But the AMP was presented as a done deal, and the AMPers did everything they possibly could NOT to admit that the AMP didn't yet have federal funding and/or to present that funding as a certainty. <br /><br />I attended 2 of the charrette meetings, and a lot of the same pro-AMPers and AMP opponents came to every one. These meetings were presented by AMP Yes and the Tennessean as having either more AMP supporters than opponents or an even split. The ones I attended had a lot more people who didn't want the AMP coming in or decided they didn't want it after looking at the drawings--which did not do anything to help people understand exactly how much streets would be widened, where Metro will exercise eminent domain. I saw MTA planner Jim McAteer getting dressed down by a couple of AMP opponents, and he really, really didn't like it.<br /><br />The takeaway: The only way Nashville isn't going to get the AMP is if MTA doesn't get federal and state funding. And if it does, that means the fix is in, because it's a design disaster. Stops don't make sense. Traffic from side streets not considered. Inadequate parking. Route to nowhere. - Anon3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com