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Music City Central (MCC) is the new downtown transit station located between 4th and 5th Avenues North on Charlotte Avenue in downtown Nashville. Work began on the new station in 2004; construction began in May 2007 and will be complete in fall 2008.
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MCC has space for all MTA transit operations as well as climate-controlled indoor waiting rooms for customers. |
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A portion of MCC will be open-air. Buses will enter and exit on both 4th and 5th Avenues. There will be 24 bus bays, and all routes will be assigned a bus bay. All bus bay numbers will be printed on the route schedules as well as on signage throughout MCC. |
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There are two entrances to MCC. The Upper Grand Entry is at the corner of 5th and Charlotte Avenues. The Lower Grand Entry is at the corner of 4th and Charlotte Avenues. |
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MCC includes a staffed information and ticket sales area; multiple ticket vending machines; public restrooms; Dunkin Donuts; and a community meeting room. |
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An open-air plaza with an outdoor stage and landscaping will provide a beautiful venue during nice weather. |
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In keeping with Nashville’s designation as “Music City USA,” MCC incorporates musical elements throughout the station. Public art on the plaza includes sculptures of musical tuning forks and pairs of drumsticks. The entire plaza is designed in the shape of a guitar with special sheet music inlays of familiar songs relating to Nashville and Tennessee. |
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MCC will provide Nashville with a state-of-the-art transit center that is clearly needed for customers who rely on the Nashville MTA system for their transportation needs and will bring the city in line with other urban markets that are of similar size. |
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Based upon current ridership, up to 20,000 people will travel through MCC each weekday. Last fiscal year, more than 9.4 million passenger trips were recorded by the MTA. |
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Currently, customers must wait on connecting buses outside on the Downtown Transit Mall, without the convenience and comfort of an indoor shelter. The Downtown Transit Mall has limited space for the system’s 35-foot, 40-foot and 60-foot buses, and the system has outgrown the area. At times, there are as many as 30 buses in the Deaderick Street vicinity with five or more buses on 4th and 5th Avenues North. |
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The site where MCC is being built is near what was once home to world-class music and entertainment. Next door to what is now MCC sat the Adelphi Theatre, which, when it opened in 1850, was the nation’s second-largest theatre with 2,500 seats. In the 1870s, ownership changed, and the Adelphi became the Grand Opera House until the structure was gutted by fire is 1902. In 1904, the facility was rebuilt and reopened as the Bijou. It closed in 1913, but re-opened three years later as the Bijou Theatre, a venue for movies, vaudeville shows, concerts and boxing matches. In 1957, the Bijou Theatre was demolished to make way for Municipal Auditorium. |
Key
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36 MTA bus routes run through the MTA’s outdoor hub on Deaderick Street. |
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160 MTA buses and Access Ride vans are on area roads during morning and afternoon rush hours. |
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The MTA bus system is a "pulse" system; currently, nearly all MTA buses meet downtown and approximately 60 percent of riders transfer to connecting buses at the Downtown Transit Mall. These are customers whose final destination is downtown or who board another bus to continue their travel. |
Project Cost and Funding:
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This new MTA facility is estimated to cost about $53.6 million. Approximately 80 percent of the cost will come from federal funds and the other 20 percent from state and local funds. |
Work Process:
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Local architect Gary Everton of Everton Oglesby Architects is the architect of the project. He leads the TranSystems/EOA team in Nashville. In 2004, MTA retained the services of TranSystems, a nationally-known transportation consulting firm, to handle all four phases of the project. TranSystems is responsible for the following: system planning and site selection, preliminary engineering and environmental assessment, final design and construction administration. |
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