After months of internal discussion about potential problems caused by Broadway's downward slope, the downtown portion of The Amp's proposed route is being altered.

The new route, which is being presented to the Citizen Advisory Committee today, avoids a center-lane station at 5th and Broadway which would have required some complicated engineering in order to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Project planners have acknowledged the trouble spot for some time and now they say they have a solution.

The new route would have eastbound busses take a left at 8th Avenue and head North to Commerce Street. Curbside stations would be located at 5th Avenue and Commerce, where the bus would turn left onto 5th heading North to Gay Street and looping around to James Robertson Parkway before taking a right on 3rd Avenue, then a left on Union and crossing into East Nashville on the Woodland Street bridge. The route is slightly different for westbound busses which would use 4th Avenue instead.

Here's a map of the new downtown route and one of the original route for comparison.