Transit Week - Day 5

Transit Week continues with tonight's Progressive Party! See below for details.

And don't forget to take the Pledge to Ride. Currently, 66 people have taken the pledge and committed to ride transit at least once before the end of Transit Week. Help us break the 100 mark by signing the pledge right now!

Transit Week is Here!

We hope you will join us in this week's activities.

Today's highlighted activity is an online pledge to ride transit at least once this week (bus, Music City Star, Music City Circuit). Click here to sign the pledge and take the challenge! Encourage your friends to take the pledge by clicking on the link to the right throughout the week.

Also, check out our column in The Tennessean, Smart Traffic Solutions Boost Economy.

Finally, here is a video of Mayor Karl Dean giving his endorsement of Transit Week.

Transit news just keeps coming in!!

Wow! February has been an exciting month for followers of Nashville transit. The Nashville Business Journal reports that MTA is working on a technology to allow riders to track where busses are and how soon the bus will be at your stop. This is great news for the current transit system... no more anxiety... "Did I miss the bus? How much longer will I wait??" Soon Nashville riders can find the answer to these questions with the help of an app on a smart phone! Learn more here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2010/02/15/daily19.html

This is a great step in the right direction. We are all for more Nashvillians growing comfortable riding the bus!

See you on the bus, friends!

Why Ride? Video Contest: Uploading Videos

We just created the group for the Why Ride? Video Contest. Please refer to the previous post for rules and details. You can find the group at http://www.veoh.com/group/why-ride-video-contest-uploading-videos . We are looking forward to seeing what everyone has created.

Video Opened My Eyes to BRT

I never fully understood the fascination with bus rapid transit (BRT). After watching this Streetfilms video reporting on Bogotá's amazing BRT network, I now have a greater appreciation for it. It seems like it can be an effective form of mass transit when it is comprehensively implemented with permanent supporting infrastructure (i.e. transit stations, dedicated lanes) as in Bogotá. Its permanence can encourage investment around the stations offering opportunities for transit oriented development (TOD). You can find the video here. Worth watching.

-Brian