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2024Focus Area
Celebrate Streets
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Using Tactical Urbanism as Community Engagement
This project supports our Guiding Principles for Health-Promoting Features and Streets. Check out the Guiding Principles to learn more about our goals.
Nashville Department of Transporation and Multimodal Infrastructure is working with Walk Bike Nashville and the Civic Design Center on creating temporary healthy built environment interventions and activations that could inform lasting change on Antioch Pike.
The Antioch Pike Tactical Urbanism project is a transformative initiative aimed at enhancing the built environment along a one-mile stretch of Antioch Pike, spanning from Nolensville Pike to McCall Street. This project seeks to address critical community needs, promote health equity, and create a vibrant, accessible corridor for all residents. Antioch Pike serves as a vital transportation artery, connecting neighborhoods, businesses, and public spaces. However, several challenges persist:
Pedestrian Safety and Accessibility: The existing streetscape lacks safe pedestrian crossings, adequate sidewalks, and accessible public spaces. This deficiency disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, including low-income residents, seniors, and people with disabilities.
Health Disparities: Residents in this area experience health disparities due to limited access to green spaces, physical activity opportunities, and social interaction. These disparities contribute to adverse health outcomes, including obesity, mental health issues, and social isolation.
Project Location
Project Plan
2024-2025August: Community Meetings: Glencliff Neighborhood, Cosecha Garden, Wright Middle, etc.
October: Design tactical urbanism installation
November: Tactical urbanism evaluation and surveying
September : Engagement and Public Life Study
December – February: Final draft designs & feedback
March – May: Quick Build Installation and Evaluation
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Moving Tennessee Forward: Nolensville Pike
Moving Tennessee Forward: Models for Connecting Communities showcases over one hundred illustrations addressing innovations in transportation, development, infrastructure and public space.To compliment the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (MPO) 2035 Regional Transportation Plan, the Nashville Civic Design Center explored various scenarios that depict how the public and private sectors could begin to implement the MPO’s plan into the built environment. This book is intended as a tool to help visually convey the ideas presented in the 2035 Regional Transportation Plan. It also depicts precedent studies from around the world, and how they can be applied to our future development patterns. As growth continues, this toolbox can be used to help communicate visionary ideas that truly serve the goal of Moving Tennessee Forward.
Envision Nolensville
Led by Conexión Américas and funded by the Kresge Foundation, ENVISION NOLENSVILLE PIKE maps out—literally and figuratively—the aspirations and dreams for the Nolensville Pike corridor as expressed by residents and business owners during community gatherings. A public/private partnership with the Nashville Area MPO, Transportation for America and the Civic Design Center.
We Are Nolensville Pike Project
The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) and partners will use funding from the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant to improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users along Nolensville Pike for 2.5 miles, from McCall Street to Haywood Lane. These improvements follow guidelines from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that enhance safety.
NDOT’s Safe Routes To School Tool Kit
The "Safe Routes to School Program Toolkit" for April 2024, created by the Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT), aims to improve student safety and accessibility on their way to and from school in Nashville. It follows Vision Zero principles, which seek zero traffic deaths, equity, data-based decisions, comprehensive strategies, collaboration, and sustainability.
Also See Walk Bike Nashville’s Work on Safe Routes To School.
NDOT’s Tactical Urbanism Program
Tactical urbanism is a practical approach that uses temporary changes to test and improve public spaces. Also called planning by doing or pop-up urbanism, it has been active in Nashville since 2012, starting with the first Park(ing) Day organized by Civic Design Center. The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) has created a guide to help local groups develop and set up these projects. Developed with input from various organizations, including Metro Staff and the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the guide aims to simplify the process for communities across Nashville. Starting in early 2024, NDOT will offer more support, including pre-application meetings and funding for materials in priority areas linked to the Vision Zero Action Plan.
Metro Nashville Vision Zero
The Vision Zero movement is a worldwide strategy to eliminate all traffic-related deaths and severe injuries and at the same time, increase safety, equity, and mobility for all users. Metro Nashville and Davidson County became a Vision Zero city in 2022. Metro Council adopted the Vision Zero Action Plan and Implementation Plan in August of that year.
While Vision Zero is a challenging goal, it’s worth working towards because people deserve safe streets in Nashville.
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