Things You Can Do

  

  • Keep informed and help us keep informed.  If you find an article, document or other information relative to this subject, let us know through the “Contact Us” form on this website

  

  • Talk to your friends and neighbors.  Let them know about this website.

  

  • Take out an ad in the Leaf-Chronicle, Tennessean, Ashland City Times and/or I-24 Exchange.  All the ad needs is the web url, www.stop-the-train.com.  A two-column, 2-inch ad in the Ashland City Times will cost about $35.00.  

  

  • Get some yard signs printed up with the web url, www.stop-the-train.com and the no-train logo.

  

  • Link this website to your personal website or your Facebook page.

  

  • Find groups that would support this opposition and spread the word.

   

  • Talk to the people who live along the corridor.  Let them know about this website.

  

  • Write to the following and let them know you are opposed to a commuter rail along the Nashville & Western corridor and tell them why you oppose it.   

 

Federal Transit Administration  (FTA gets notified of the intent to develop an Alternatives Analysis.  See Clarksville-Nashville Transportation Corridor: Project Summary, Next Steps.)

Yvette G. Taylor, Regional Administrator for Region 4

230 Peachtree, NW

Suite 800

Atlanta, GA 30303

Clarksville Urbanized Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CUAMPO) funded part of the Initial Feasibility Study and has stated the Next Steps in the above document.

stanwilliams@cityofclarksville.com  

Executive Director of Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization   (CUAMPO needs the endorsement of the Nashville MPO to pursue an Alternatives Analysis.  See Next Steps in the document above.)

Michael.Skipper@nashville.gov and skipper@nashvillempo.org  

Cheatham County Railroad Authority  

Director Bill Orange (also Cheatham County Mayor)  

Montgomery County Rail Service Authority 

dweiland@montgomerycountytn.org  

Nashville Mayor  

Mayor Karl Dean  

Ashland City Mayor  

Mayor Gary Norwood  

Clarksville Mayor  

mayorpiper@cityofclarksville.com

Montgomery County Mayor

Mayor Carolyn Bowers  

Cheatham County Mayor  

Mayor Bill Orange

100 Public Sq

Ashland City, TN 37015

Your County Commissioners  

  

Cheatham County Joint Economic and Community Development Executive Director, James Fenton  

jamesfenton@cheathamconnect.com  

Regional Transportation Authority Chief Executive

 paul.ballard@nashville.gov  

Tennessee Department of Transportation which funded part of the Initial Feasibility Study  

  

Governor of Tennessee

Phil.Bredesen@tn.gov    

U.S. Senators from Tennessee, Senator Lamar Alexander and Senator Bob Corker

  

Your U.S. House of Representative from Tennessee.   

If you don’t know what district you live in, go to http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/government/elected.html

  

  

  

  

  

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