Thursday, November 19, 2009

People's Choice Award: You decide: Voting Closed

The following videos were submitted in response to our Why Ride? video contest. The video that receives the highest number of votes in our poll by 7:00pm on November 30th (voting is closed) will receive the People's Choice Award and $250. Good luck to all of the contestants. All winners will be announced on December 2nd at 7:00pm on www.transitnownashville.org .

Video #1: The Nashville Information Show by DetricCook


Watch Nashville Transit Now: Why Ride? in Comedy | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Video #2: Take the Bus: Because no one wants to drive you to work... by sleevelee


Watch Steve Lee's "Why Ride" video entry in Comedy | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Video #3: Now Hiring: Here When You Need Us by bentleyluva2003


Watch MTA Bus Video in Activism & Non-Profit | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Video #4: A New Way To Travel by sreenilaj

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

More attention being paid to pedestrian-friendly streets.

This is a great story from today's Morning Edition on NPR about the changing attitudes towards pedestrians. It focuses on some of the dangers pedestrians face while walking to and waiting at bus stops. Suburbia was designed with the car as king, but that tendency is starting to change.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120266854

Sunday, November 8, 2009

NE Corridor Public Meetings

The Nashville Area Metropolitan MPO will hold five public workshops in November for the Northeast Corridor Mobility Study in the communities of East Nashville, Madison-Rivergate, Goodlettsville, Hendersonville, and Gallatin. The study is a regional planning effort to analyze future development scenarios and transportation improvements between these communities. Mass transit alternatives that include Bus Rapid Transit, Light Rail Transit and Commuter Rail are being recommended to move forward for detailed analysis to determine a preferred alternative. Citizens will have an opportunity to provide input on these alternatives. All workshops start @ 5:30 pm. The following is the schedule and locations. More info please visit the MPO website. Please come out and support mass transit options in Middle TN.

November 9, 2009

5:30 PM - Hendersonville Corridor Workshop
Hendersonville Public Library
140 Saundersville Rd
Hendersonville, TN 37075

November 11, 2009

5:30 PM - Goodlettsville Corridor Workshop
Goodlettsville City Hall
105 South Main St
Goodlettsville, TN 37072

November 12, 2009

5:30 PM - Gallatin Corridor Workshop
Sumner County Administration Building Chambers
355 N. Belvedere
Gallatin, TN 37066

November 16, 2009

5:30 PM - Madison Corridor Workshop
Madison Senior Center
301 Madison St
Madison, TN 37116

November 17, 2009

5:30 PM - Nashville Corridor Workshop
East Park Community Center
700 Woodland St
Nashville, TN 37206

Friday, November 6, 2009

Video Contest Uploads

We have discovered there is a serious bug in the Youtube group upload feature. As a result, people are having problems uploading their video submissions. We have changed services to veoh.com. The address to the group is:

http://www.veoh.com/group/why-ride-video-contest-uploading-videos

So far it looks like it is working. As long as you send us an email to transitnownashville@gmail.com before tomorrow's deadline, you will have until November 10th to upload to the new site. We apologize for the inconvenience but felt that we had not choice. Please let us know if you are having problems uploading your video.
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