Walk Bike Nashville has paused its popular bus pass program as it conducts conversations with WeGo Public Transit, which the nonprofit advocacy group says imposed an “unexpected price hike.”

Last week, Walk Bike Nashville announced that it would halt its participation in WeGo Ride, a partnership program that allowed the group to offer its members a yearly bus pass for $25. In early August, WeGo told the group it would increase the cost to $50 for a pass, requiring Walk Bike to pay the fee as an upfront cost of more than $39,000 — a $20,000 increase from what the nonprofit's members collectively would typically pay.

Walk Bike said that based on prior conversations with WeGo, it did not expect such an increase. In a social media post on Friday, Walk Bike Nashville officials urged WeGo to e

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