Nashville Business Journal
Scott Harrison

One takeaway I had during the Amp debate: A great deal of Nashvillians clamor over light rail.

As Nashville’s transit conversation has morphed from wrangling over that specific project to a broader discussion of what service is needed in the region, there’s an undeniable fixation around light rail.

In their newest report released Tuesday, transit officials in Middle Tennessee have identified a few corridors for possible light-rail service in the region.

There are the logical routes along the interstates where traffic counts arecurrently swelling at all-time highs: Interstate 65 south to Franklin and Interstate 24 southeast to Murfreesboro. The new report put out by MTA highlights those two corridors. The report also points to potentially running light-rail service from Gallatin to downtown Nashville.

“These areas are the most densely populated and fast growing within the region and have well-established patterns of cross-county travel. Each of these would be long light-rail lines that would serve Middle Tennessee counties as well as trips within Davidson County,” according to the report.

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