Stay in the Loop Editorials and commentary from LOOP Nashville on the Music City Loop, growth, transportation and the city's future.
The organization supported a downtown transportation tunnel in 2018. Its political relationships and competing transportation priorities deserve scrutiny alongside its criticism of Music City Loop.
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Nashville's historic streetcars offer a lesson for the Music City Loop: build a dense, useful urban network before extending long routes to surrounding counties. The WeGo Star shows the costs of limited last-mile access.
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Nashville already has driverless vehicles on public streets. Guest contributor Gleb Tsipursky argues the Music City Loop should define where automated authority ends and human authority begins before driverless operations arrive underground.
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Tesla's purpose-built robotaxi is beginning to move from prototype to real-world deployment. If Cybercab reaches scale, Nashville's underground Loop could become one of the most natural places in America to put it to work.
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The East Bank is rapidly becoming a new center of gravity for Nashville. The city should preserve the ability to connect the district to the Music City Loop while streets, utilities and major destinations are still being built.
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A Music City Loop that stops at downtown would leave one of Nashville's fastest-growing districts just across the river. Nashville should begin studying an underground Cumberland crossing now.
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Murfreesboro Pike has the land, location and redevelopment potential to absorb thousands of new homes. Music City Loop could make that growth more practical if Nashville pairs transportation investment with sensible land-use reform.
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Nashville International Airport is preparing for another generation of growth. With BNA already committed to a Music City Loop connection, Terminal II should be designed around underground transportation before it is built.
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Gaylord Opryland, the Grand Ole Opry and Opry Mills form one of Nashville's largest visitor destinations outside downtown. As the Loop grows, Opryland presents an unusually strong case for a future extension.
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An Olympic bid is not on Nashville's immediate agenda. But the city's growing collection of major venues and the emergence of an underground transportation network raise a serious long-range question about what Nashville could host in the future.
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