Winning in Nashville
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A one-hour webinar, June 5, 2025, about Nashville’s successful ballot measure, “Choose How You Move.”
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00:00 Welcome – Kammy Horne, Mpact CEO
01:50 Welcome – Debbie Frank and Michael Briggs
07:03 Learning from Setbacks
12:31 Crafting “Choose How You Move”
26:48 Implementation
38:26 Q&A
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In November 2024, voters in Nashville, Tenn., approved a half-penny (0.5%) sales tax surcharge and created a dedicated funding source for transportation and mobility projects included in the transportation improvement program, “Choose How You Move: An All-Access Pass to Sidewalks, Signals, Service, and Safety.”
- Find out how this victory was built on two previous setbacks: a failed 2018 ballot measure and a cancelled BRT project.
- Learn about the components of the new ballot measure, the messages that were persuasive and how Nashville is approaching implementation.
Featured Speakers
Debbie Frank
Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Growth and Development, WeGo Public Transit
Debbie Frank is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Growth and Development at WeGo Public Transit, serving Nashville and Davidson County, where she is involved in implementation of Choose How You Move.
Michael Briggs
Deputy Chief Program Officer, Office of the Mayor, City of Nashville, Tenn.
Michael Briggs, AICP, was instrumental in the development and passage of the Choose How You Move program. He served in a special advisor role to Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell as Director of Transportation Planning while leading Vanderbilt University’s Office of Transportation and Mobility. He is now the Deputy Chief Program Officer in the Mayor’s Office for the City of Nashville, Tenn.