Transit advocates hope Metro makes the most of the East Bank redevelopment — but they also worry that the current plan doesn’t go far enough on transportation options.
Taylor Swiffer? Sweepy McSweepface? Metro wants your help naming its new bike lane sweeper.
Help name Nashville’s newest street sweeper.
Experts answer listener questions on how Nashville can expand its transit options
On Wednesday, This Is Nashville invited Cathy Carrillo, education and engagement manager at Walk Bike Nashville, and Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee CEO Jessica Dauphin to answer listener questions about the current state of public transportation and infrastructure in Nashville.
Curious Nashville: Freight trains keep blocking city streets and frustrating commuters. Can anything be done?
It can be a daily frustration in some Nashville neighborhoods: a freight train grinds to a halt and blocks the road. The frustration prompted a question to our Curious Nashville project.
Tell us about the public transportation that you’d like to see in Nashville
This Is Nashville is planning a future episode about what it’s like to live and work in Nashville when you don’t have a vehicle or are unable to drive.
Nashville’s debris-filled bike lanes get their own sweeper
Nashville has a new piece of street-cleaning equipment that’s drawing surprise and delight from bicyclists — a lane sweeper that’s designed to fit within the city’s narrow protected bike lanes recently ran its first trial routes.
Curious Nashville: Will traffic ever improve at Bell Road, one of Nashville’s most baffling interstate exits?
Traffic is not really a new story in Nashville, but Rusti Keen says Exit 59 on Interstate 24 is “particularly insane.” So, she came to Curious Nashville with a question.
Why more Nashvillians are turning to e-bikes to get around
Bikes with electric motors, or e-bikes, have been controversial. But last year, Nashville began allowing them on the city’s greenways, with a speed limit of 15 miles an hour.
A Tennessee trucker says a new federal program training teens to drive big rigs won’t address deeper staffing and safety issues
Trade groups like the American Trucking Associations say the Department of Transportation’s new pilot program will provide a staffing boost. But Lyndon Johnson, who lives in Hilham, Tenn. says “there are bigger fish to fry in the industry right now.”
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