NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A popular program designed to keep neighborhood streets safer in Nashville is expanding.
The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) announced 25 newly selected neighborhood street traffic calming projects will begin in the coming weeks.
The streets included are:
- Drakes Branch Road
- Butler Road
- Kings Lane
- Shepherd Hills Drive/Spring Branch Drive
- Huntingboro Trail
- Hillcrest Drive
- Haysboro Avenue
- Battle Road
- Warfield Drive
- Graylynn Drive
- West Hamilton Road
- 18th Avenue South
- Greenland Avenue
- Meridian Street
- Harrington Avenue
- Lanier Drive
- Branch Street/Maxey Lane
- Trails End Lane
- Donald Street
- Lewis Street
- Morton Avenue
- Pennsylvania Avenue
- Woodlands Avenue
- Flora Maxwell Road
- Fairfax Avenue
NDOT considered factors like driver volume, vehicular speed and injuries and fatalities to compile the list.
In the coming weeks, NDOT officials will attend neighborhood meetings and plan community workshops to collaborate with residents and Metro council members on the best design for each street.
NDOT opens two traffic calming application periods per year. Neighborhoods can submit applications during each of these time periods. Once the application window has closed, NDOT begins data collection on each of the submitted neighborhood streets.
NDOT is opening the next window from March 1 to March 14. To learn more about applying visit: https://www.nashville.gov/departments/transportation/plans-and-programs/traffic-calming/application-process
The line ''see something, say something" took on new meaning recently in Bowling Green. Two alert neighbors helped tip police to stolen Corvettes from the nearby assembly plant. That led law enforcement to find 8 stolen Corvettes worth over $1 million. We may all be able to learn a little lesson from this.
-Lelan Statom
