NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — The Metro Nashville Transit Authority approved a $1.15 million contract to the consultant “Marine Tiger” to help launch Metro Nashville Police’s transit unit with hopes of making WEGO buses safer across the network.
We’re told MNPD Chief John Drake and Captain Brian Williams, the transit liaison, have been checking out how other cities’ transit units operate. The MNPD unit is going to be a $400,000 operation, according to a recent Transit Authority meeting, but why the seven-figure price tag just to get it off the ground? We took that question to Mayor Freddie O’Connell.
“I know they want to do a lot of planning get this right, this is sort of the foundational stage, your probably aware they did do a system-wide analysis and partnership with MNPD last year a group called “Marine Tiger,” they gave them an assessment, and a lot of these cases you do want to bring in subject matter expertise,” Mayor O’Connell tells us…