Metropolitan Transit Authority officials have unveiled a $4.8 million plan to upgrade their service along Murfreesboro Pike down to Antioch to a "lite" version of bus rapid transit. If funding comes through, the upgrades could kick in by next spring.

The Murfreesboro Pike proposal comes three years after Dean kicked off BRT lite in Davidson County on East Nashville’s Gallatin Pike, a 12-mile stretch from downtown’s Music City Central to RiverGate Mall. Since its inception, bus ridership along Gallatin Pike has increased from 80,000 trips per month to 115,000.