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NashVillager Podcast: Signals change

Nina Cardona

December 9, 2024

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How will tweaks to traffic signals improve Nashville’s transit system?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville transit referendum, traffic, transportation

You hold the purse strings: Nashvillians can vote now on 35 neighborhood projects vying for funding

Cynthia Abrams

October 8, 2023

Voting is open for Davidson County residents who want a say in how to spend $10 million in the city’s expanded “participatory budgeting” process.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: budgeting, city budgeting, city funding, city funds, Davidson County, Metro Council district, Metro Government, Metro Nashville, Metro Parks, Nashville, neighborhood projects, parks, participatory budgeting, traffic, traffic calming

Public transit — mayoral candidates respond to a WPLN listener’s question

Cynthia Abrams

August 2, 2023

WPLN asked Nashville’s mayoral candidates questions from listeners. Here’s what they had to say on public transportation.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: cars, mayor, Mayor's race 2023, mayoral candidates, Mayoral election, Mayoral Race 2023, Nashville mayoral race, Nashville transit referendum, public transit, public transportation, rail network, traffic, traffic fatalities, train, transit, transportation, WeGo

For sale in downtown Nashville: one beach. Curious Nashville takes a look at how this sandy triangle came to be.

Cynthia Abrams

June 15, 2023

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Something new has hit Nashville’s hot real estate market: a beach, right smack in the middle of downtown Nashville. But, until it’s sold, Nashvillians driving through the intersection of Lafayette, Division and 4th Avenue may wonder: What is that sandy triangle doing there?

Filed Under: Curious Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: Beach, downtown, downtown Nashville, Little Chill Beach, Nashville real estate, Real Estate, SoBro, traffic

Middle Tennessee snow: How much fell, what it looked like and what’s next

Blake Farmer

January 6, 2022

snow sledding East Nashville

Within an hour Thursday morning, Middle Tennessee streets went from almost dry to absolutely dangerous. Snow was falling at more than an inch an hour, reaching 7 inches in some places and resulting in hundreds of traffic accidents.

Filed Under: Education, Environment, Science, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville schools, Metro Schools, MNPS, snow, traffic, Weather, winter weather

Over half of traffic crashes happen on 6% of Nashville streets. Officials want input on how to address it.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 31, 2021

Open Streets Nashville

Since 2014, more than 400 people have been killed in traffic crashes in Nashville.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity Tagged With: Charlotte Avenue, metro, Murfreesboro Pike, Nolensville Pike, traffic, vision zero, West Trinity Lane

Second Avenue to reopen to traffic a year after Christmas Day bombing

Julia Ritchey

December 23, 2021

One year after a bomb went off destroying a block of Second Avenue, the city will reopen the street to traffic and pedestrians — though not nearly back to normal.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Christmas bombing, Metro Nashville, redevelopment, second avenue, traffic

Good Luck Getting Around This Weekend: Nashville Interstate Closure Is Expected To Snarl Traffic

Chas Sisk

September 19, 2019

State officials are anticipating traffic snarls on highways and side streets this weekend as a major interchange on the south side of Nashville shuts down for bridge work. Both I-440 and I-65 will be closed where they meet up in Berry Hill. The shutdown will run from Friday at 9 p.m. to Monday at 5 […]

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: I-440, traffic

An East Nashville Neighborhood At Odds Over Bike Lanes, But The Division Goes Deeper

Meribah Knight

July 23, 2018

Listen An East Nashville neighborhood is at odds over bike lanes. A group of residents and local bike commuters have been pushing to install the lanes in Cleveland Park. But another group of vocal longtime residents strongly opposes the project. And the issue signifies a much deeper rift in the community.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Growth, traffic

With The Return Of School Traffic, Middle Tennessee Tries To Keep Calm

Tony Gonzalez

August 3, 2017

Nashville traffic

Listen The slog of Nashville traffic only gets worse when school comes back into session, and Middle Tennessee transportation officials now say that drive times increase by 10 to 30 minutes during the school year.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: traffic, transportation

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