The Metro Council on Tuesday night officially approved five people to join Nashville’s new Advisory Committee on Transportation. Mayor Freddie O’Connell established the body by executive order to incorporate community members into the city’s ongoing public transit expansion.
Kalen Russell, Claudio Mosse, John Wesley Smith, Morgan Rehnberg and David Harris will join Vice Mayor Angie Henderson and nine mayoral appointees on the 15-member committee.
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Russell and Smith are advocacy managers at local nonprofits The Equity Alliance and Walk Bike Nashville, respectively. They join Rehnberg, who works at the Adventure Science Museum, and Mosse, a Vanderbilt physician.
O’Connell’s executive order tasks the board with forming transit recommendations, working with the to-be-hired chief program officer of transit initiative "Choose How You Move," promoting public education on public transit, and reviewing implemented transit projects.
The mayor recently announced a first wave of transit-related projects. Metro officially secured the funding for these at Tuesday’s meeting.
