The Tennessee Titans and WeGo Public Transit have partnered to offer free bus service on days the NFL team plays at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.
“We’re excited to expand and enhance our collaboration with WeGo into the full Titans season,” Burke Nihill, Titans president and CEO, said in a statement. “Free bus service is an incredible addition to the many ways to get to Titans home games.”
While only four routes stop at Nissan Stadium, WeGo is offering all bus rides in the entire city of Nashville free on days that the Titans play at home.
Get in y'all we're going to Nissan Stadium 🚍
Catch a FREE bus ride on game day with WeGo, and get dropped off right in front of the stadium!
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— Nissan Stadium (@NissanStadium) September 13, 2024
The bus routes that connect to Nissan Stadium, which stop at South 1st St. and Woodland St., include Routes 4 (Shelby), 14 (Whites Creek), 23 (Dickerson Pike), and 56 (Gallatin Pike).
In addition to free bus service, WeGo Access will be free to the public on Titans home game days.
WeGo Access is a paratransit service that offers door-to-door service via specialized vans for persons with disabilities who are unable to use fixed-route transit.
The partnership between WeGo and the Titans runs through the team’s regular season, of which includes eight total games at Nissan Stadium.
The Titans’ next home game day is this Sunday when the team faces the Green Bay Packers.
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell cheered the partnership between the Titans and WeGo, saying that offering free bus service is a “great opportunity” for individuals to experience using the city’s public transportation service.
“This is a great opportunity for Titans fans to experience riding WeGo Public Transit to and from Nissan Stadium, and it’s a free way for anyone to explore a new part of our city on game days,” O’Connell said.
The new partnership between the Titans and WeGo to offer free bus service on game days to attract new riders comes as Nashville residents vote on the mayor’s multi-billion dollar transit plan, which would expand WeGo services, on the November 5 general election ballot.
O’Connell’s transit plan, “Choose How You Move: An All-Access Pass to Sidewalks, Signals, Service, and Safety,” would allocate tax dollars to expand WeGo’s services through additional bus routes and bus stations through a half-cent increase of the city’s sales tax.
In addition to new and extended bus routes and $653 million in “WeGo Essentials,” the mayor’s plan would also include the construction of new sidewalks, bus stops, transit centers, parking facilities, and upgraded traffic signals.
While the plan was slated to cost $3.1 billion, an independent financial analysis found that the referendum would cost taxpayers $6.93 billion over the project’s lifetime.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
