Choose How You Move: Sabrina Sussman on Building Trust and Transforming Transit in Nashville

What does it take for a city to bet big on its future and actually bring the community along for the ride? In this episode of Beyond Streets , we sit down with Sabrina Sussman, former USDOT official, longtime Zipcar leader, and now head of Nashville’s Choose How You Move program. After voters approved a bold ballot measure to raise local funds for mobility improvements, Nashville is embarking on a generational investment in sidewalks, transit, and safe streets. We talk with Sabrina about: Why she left D.C. for Nashville and how Civic Match helped connect national talent to local needs. The years of community input and trust-building that made this ballot measure possible. How focusing on basics first—sidewalks, signals, safety, and service—helped secure public buy-in. What “trust” really means when government asks residents to invest. Why Choose How You Move is as much a talent and workforce initiative as it is a transportation one. It’s a story about public trust, civic courage, and what it means to deliver visible change in a city that decided to invest in itself. Help us grow: please rate, review, and

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Choose How You Move: Sabrina Sussman on Building Trust and Transforming Transit in Nashville is an episode from The Mobility Podcast by Beyond Streets Podcast.

This episode is 39:20 long.

This episode was published on Sep 4, 2025.

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