Circulator Charrette: Table 3

Table 3 identified their assets to be served by a circulator in terms of neighborhoods or areas, identified by the large blue circles on the map. Mary gives a quick summary of Table 3's ideal and prioritized route proposals:

Our big vision, without budget constraints, focused on the idea that transit should loop like clover leaves or petals into the surrounding ring neighborhoods. The concept was to connect these neighborhoods on the plan, circled in blue, with transit noted with dashed black lines.

Our Downtown priority loop (shown with green tape) has a 7-day a week route with evening hours and 12 minute headways. The line serves 8th Avenue, to the Farmer’s Market, then 2nd Avenue and loops back on Demonbreun with another section of the Circulator that ties in the Gulch area. This Circulator is the largest of the three proposed scenarios in the Downtown core but we noted existing bus lines could be modified with the proposal and discussed the need for the light rail spine down Broadway to the Vandy area.

The green tape was an innovation that table 3 requested on the fly. It included shorter headways during lunch hours and the 12 minute headways at other times. We fit it into the charrette method by allowing it in increments of 7", compared to the 6" blue tape and the 8" red or yellow tape. See the original circulator charrette post below for the full, original method.

I hope you have enjoyed reading these summaries about the circulator charrette, and I hope to see you at future Transit Now Nashville events.

-Cliff