Open Streets Nashville temporarily closes streets to cars, encouraging community connection, physical activity, and support for local businesses. This initiative inspires new uses for public spaces, allowing biking, walking, dancing, and more. Neighbors, businesses, and organizations can reclaim street space, creating opportunities for picnics, art, and play. The free event transforms streets into park-like settings, fostering exploration and enjoyment without cars. Originating in Bogotá, Colombia, many cities now embrace Open Streets programs, including Atlanta and Louisville.

Civic Design Center Open Streets Activities

Noon - 2pm: Glencliff and Antioch Tactical Urbanism Intervention

 

The Civic Design Center has designed a tactical urbanism gateway intervention for the focus area of Antioch Pike (from Nolensville to McCall). It looks at trying to move vehicles to the center lanes of the road in an attempt to distance cars from the sidewalk as much as possible. Help us paint new bulb-outs at this intersection during Open Streets.

2pm - 3pm: Knitting Workshop

Learn the basics of knitting and help dress up our traffic turtles that will be installed the the new tactical urbanism installation at Glencliff and Antioch. Yarn will be provided all you need is your fingers!

3pm - 2pm: Traffic Turtle Installation

Help place the traffic turtles in our new bulb-outs at Glencliff and Antioch.

This year at Open Streets we will be collaborating with Walk Bike Nashville, the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure, the Civic Design Center, and community partners to design and build tactical urbanism installations to info a longer-term (or Quick Build) Project on Antioch Pike. Learn more about the project.