Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Nashville

Meet the Mom on a Mission to Bring Sidewalks to Nashville

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 29, 2014 | 2 Comments

Stacy Dorris became an advocate for safer streets after a failed attempt to walk to the park by her home in Nashville, not far from Vanderbilt University. Like most streets in Nashville, there were no sidewalks along the high speed road that leads to the park. Still, Dorris headed out with her dog and stroller […]

State Interference in Nashville BRT Could Have National Implications

By Annie Weinstock | Apr 23, 2014 | 9 Comments

Annie Weinstock is the regional director for the U.S. and Africa at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. Last week saw the quiet death of the misguided, Koch brothers-funded Tennessee Senate Bill 2243, which would have effectively banned real bus rapid transit in Tennessee. The Senate’s outrageous overreach, attempting to prohibit transit from using dedicated […]

Long Arm of the Koch Brothers Extends to Nashville to Slap Down Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 3, 2014 | 9 Comments

On Tuesday, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean announced that he might do away with dedicated transit lanes on two stretches of the Amp, the proposed seven-mile bus rapid transit line that could set an important precedent for the car-centric city. Dean is the main political backer of the project, so the fact that he’s buckling says […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Play the Gray Away

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 2, 2014 | 1 Comment

Jeff and I had a great time this week, getting all outraged at the short-sighted move by the Tennessee Senate to ban dedicated lanes for transit, and high and mighty about cities that devote too much space to surface parking at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a […]

Tennessee Senate Tries to Cripple Nashville BRT

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 28, 2014 | 14 Comments

UPDATE: Though none of the coverage we saw mentioned it, the final law includes an amendment to ban all dedicated transit lanes — not just in the center — “on any state highway or state highway right-of-way unless the project to do so is approved by the legislative body of the metropolitan government and by […]

Dateline Nashville: Students Spotted Walking to School — Outside!

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 17, 2014 | 20 Comments

Today in what’s wrong with everything: The Nashville news media is apparently aghast that students at a local high school had to take a walk. According to WKRN, on the way back from a field trip around 100 students from the Nashville School of the Arts were dropped off about eight-tenths of a mile from […]

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