the main cause is the downtown loop with all the merging going on. the secondary cause is lack of public transit. that downtown loop needs to have a huge reduction in ramps, from 5 through downtown to 1 for each end and you fix the interchanges so they don't force you to make a merge to the left, and either seperate em or widen em to more modern urban standards. then you start on public transit, BRT would be a cost effective solution and make it so only industry has a special zone, offices, commercial and apartments are mixed zoning. all of those changes long term and you fix nashvilles traffic till around 2050. then it'll be time to invest in trams and trains.

@@Zeakthecat we wont get any of that with our current governor. Our mayor can only work with city funded roads and not state roads so it will be hard to fix. And democrats havent won our state since 1988, if we had a Andy Beshear type of governor, someone that can reach a lot of rural voters, people that havent voted in a long time because of conservative austerity politics, then maybe we would have a chance of fixing any of this truly statewide.

@@willpotter22 democrats won't do shit either. this isn't even a partisan topic, its a serious bipartisan issue that requires a intelligent leader to get stuff done, and NOT a old boomer fuck who will do nothing but drag this state and the country as a whole into the shitter.

@@willpotter22 transportation, much like most other critical needs and welfare projects, are bipartisan in nature. that being said, we won't have a good leader that will basically be sane enough and not tribal/populist for quite sometime. people on both sides no longer want to be smart, they instead want to enforce their own way or its the highway. that is why you won't find a smart leader in the state of tn and won't for the foreseeable future.

@@Zeakthecatwhat do you mean bipartisan? 😂 what about conservative politics is bipartisan? Sure their might be a few conservative politicians in the past that were able to do things well (carmel indiana) but nowadays they dont want what is best for anyone

<sigh> As always, you have three lanes of congestion, you add a lane, you have four lanes of congestion. And even worse, they're talking about adding Lexus lanes, because what does it matter if the rest of us are stuck in traffic as long as rich people can get there quickly, right?

The new one is going to have that.

24 shouldn't have any more lanes. The space should be used for a high speed rail corridor.

Of course not. No point in doing anything that would actually solve transportation problems, just add more lanes!

Good. We don't need more interstates.

@@jonc4403 Not new cross-country building. It would upgrade existing US 51 to interstate standards from Dyersburg to Millington.

@@musicman451 How is that better? Look what I-40 did to US 66, absolute devastation to the small towns it went through out west.