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Blue Route Reverse Express Route
This new Route would be a direct route between
the east side of the Cool Springs study area and
Downtown Franklin. Given this direct route, there
may be significant demand for lunchtime riders. To
encourage this ridership, frequent midday service will
be provided, with sponsored free fares between 11:00
AM and 1:00 PM. The route would start at the Franklin
Transit Center, with its first stop being on the east
side of Columbia Avenue at Church Street. The route
would proceed via Church Street to Murfreesboro Road,
where it would run to the Williamson Medical Center,
entering and exiting the facility in the same manner
as the East Bound Route currently does. The route
would continue up Carothers Parkway to Bakers Bridge
Avenue, and then enter the Galleria property from the
north. When Columbia State Community College opens
its campus on Liberty Pike in 2016, the route will serve
that location as well. While the route’s final east bound
stop would be at mall entrance next to the Belk Home
Store, no layover would be taken there, as the bus would
proceed back Downtown via the same routing. For service to and from outside the area, a new
express route would be established between
the current Park & Ride facility and downtown
Nashville. The service would recycle two buses
from the current 91X service (which will not
change), with three morning and three evening
rush hour only trips. Arrival and departure times
from Nashville buses will be timed to allow riders
to transfer to the Purple Route for those riders
wishing to access businesses along Seaboard
Lane. The route would run express from Music
City Central, the main downtown transfer hub for
the MTA. Exiting I-65 at Moore’s Lane, the route
would make limited local stops along Carothers
Parkway at major employment centers, including
at Bakers Bridge Avenue, Mayfield Drive, Meridian
Boulevard, Cool Springs Boulevard, Crescent
Centre, Nissan Way, and East McEwen Drive, where
it will reenter I-65, exiting again at Murfreesboro
Road to continue its journey to the Park & Ride.
Timed transfers would be available between the East
Bound, South Bound and West Bound routes, at the
Franklin Transit Center; Route 91X, the Nashville
Reverse Express Route; the Purple Route at Southwinds
Boulevard and Murfreesboro Road; and both the East
Bound and Purple Routes at the Cool Springs Galleria. For late night riders, a new route would operate
between 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM. This route would
primarily serve second shift retail and restaurant
workers who do not currently have a ride home if
they take transit to work. The route would operate
fixed route service on Mallory Lane to Liberty
Pike, after which it would be authorized to drop
passengers off at any stop within the Franklin
Transit system, via flexible routing. There is a
possibility that the demand for this route becomes
consistent and concentrated enough so that a fixed
route could be developed to serve popular stops.
Purple Route
This new Route would exist entirely within the
Cool Springs study area, primarily serving the
light industrial area along Seaboard Lane, and also
dense housing clusters along Mallory Lane, West
McEwen Drive, and Aspen Grove Drive. Taking its
layover in the Williamson Square parking lot, its first
northbound stop would be at Southwinds Boulevard
and Murfreesboro Road. The route would then proceed
via Murfreesboro Road, North Royal Oaks Blvd, Mallory
Lane, West McEwen Drive, Cool Springs Boulevard,
Aspen Grove Drive, Seaboard Lane, Duke Drive, Mary
Lindsay Polk Drive, Seaboard Lane, and Crossroads
Boulevard, entering the Galleria to the west. While the
route’s final north bound stop would be at mall entrance
next to the Belk Home Store, no layover would be taken
there, as the bus would proceed back to Williamson
Square via the same routing, where it would take its
layover.
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