Photos: Mayor Freddie O’Connell celebrates signing of unanimously approved Choose How You Move ballot language

Mayor Freddie O'Connell joined council members and community leaders to celebrate his signing of the legislation that council unanimously approved which puts the transportation improvement program on the doorstep of the November 5 ballot.

View the photo gallery from the ceremonial bill signing and ribbon cutting of the 300th bus shelter.

"Choose How You Move isn't another plan. It's our chance to modernize our transportation system and catch up to our growth," Mayor Freddie O'Connell said. "This a program built by the community over the course of more than a decade. Nashvillians shared 66-thousand ideas and we created more than 70 transportation plans from them. I am grateful to members of the Metro Council for careful consideration of our plan and the opportunity in front of us."

Before signing the legislation, the mayor gathered with the community to cut the ribbon on the 300th WeGo bus shelter, located on Clarksville Pk.

The following is a snapshot of what's included in Choose How You Move:

• 86 miles of sidewalk improvements. When combined with annual capital spending, this will complete the entire WalkNBike Nashville priority sidewalk network.
• 54 miles of upgraded corridors to provide faster, safer, and more reliable transit options
• A transit system that runs 24/7/365 because Nashvillians don't just work from 9-to-5. That doubles the frequent service and adds nearly double the number of crosstown routes. Plus, there will be new express routes to get Nashvillians to popular locations more quickly
• 12 community transit centers will connect to each other, so riders don't have to go downtown just to get to some other part of the city
• 17 new park and ride facilities
• 35 miles of upgraded and new bicycle facilities
• And the thing that might help Nashvillians the most: upgrades to traffic signals at almost 600 intersections - two of every three signalized intersections in Nashville - to make sure we all hit more green lights. This will help people moving around the city whether they're walking, rolling, biking, taking transit, or driving.

This is the fourth piece of critical legislation to pass unanimously this year; previous unanimous votes include the mayor's capital spending plan, the Fiscal Year 2025 operating budget, and the East Bank developer agreement with The Fallon Co.

The Election Commission will now hold a final vote to approve the program's placement on the November ballot.