Opposition efforts were led by NoTax4Tracks, a group funded by wealthy conservative donors, including automobile dealer Lee Beaman, developer Mark Bloom and others who remained anonymous. I’ll get back to work tomorrow on finding a solution for Nashville that we all can agree on.” “Our transportation problems are not going away in fact, we know they’re only going to get more challenging as we continue to grow.
“My responsibility as mayor is to get back to the drawing board and find the common ground to develop consensus on a new way forward. “We all can agree that we have to do something about traffic and transportation, but voters didn’t get behind this plan,” Briley said. Early voting begins Friday.īriley, in a statement, pledged to quickly find a consensus on the issue. The measure, most popular among progressives and liberals, failed to gain traction after critics defined the debate by hammering the viability of light rail and cost on taxpayers.įor Briley, the loss could have immediate implications on the special mayoral election set for May 24, where Briley is heavily favored against 12 opponents, all of whom opposed the transit plan. And what happened was people felt left out.” Transit vote looms over mayor's race “What happened is there was a gap in Nashville neighborhoods and leadership downtown. “This was a necessary thing to go through, and we appreciate the process that we went through together," he said. He chooses to lowercase his name in a gesture of humility carr is also a candidate for mayor. “This is an awesome moment for Nashville,” said jeff obafemi carr, a top organizer for NoTax4Tracks, the main opposition group of the referendum. At times the transit fight exposed a sharp divide - one between younger Nashvillians flocking to gentrifying neighborhoods closer to downtown who have embraced the idea of transit and others who feel the transit plan went a step too far.
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