Come check out Nashville WEST, the home of the county’s most transit accessible Buffalo Wild Wings!
Husband, girl dad, numbers guy. Cities should be car-optional. Pro-bus, pro-bike, pro-immigrant, pro-housing. These smart, walkable, mixed-use skeets are mine alone, and will veer into economics, sports, and Nashville.
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Come check out Nashville WEST, the home of the county’s most transit accessible Buffalo Wild Wings!
Phenomenal work all around. Thanks to these endearingly weird transit bros for clearly demonstrating a problem, and to the city for listening and making positive change. I’m encouraging everybody out there to try stuff like this where you live, and see if you can make it better!!!
I’ve never been more tired trying to beat a bus. I beat it out of principle but no one is actually going to do that. Riding the bus beats walking or driving downtown, pass it on.
Nashville had an incredible opportunity here to 1) do the right thing 2) embarrass Elon Musk, and 3) prove conservatives wrong by building the bus lanes called for in Connect Downtown. No further engagement needed, no outreach, no hand wringing. We did all that already. Build it.
Downtown Nashville’s best block for street trees and great sidewalks is also one of its worst for buildings that engage with pedestrians.
Shoutout @jasoncoxnc.bsky.social for blackpilling me on how bad for urbanism the median fire department is.
Need a councilmember who is willing to push back on that because NFD is running 8 or 9 of these agile little guys, including up at station 29 in Inglewood.
I love their baby roundabouts. Can think of several intersections in 37206 and 37216 where they’d help keep cars in neighborhoods moving at neighborhood speeds.
My instagram algorithm knows me a little too well.
I see at least ten winnable games but after last season's stinker of a year, I'm taking the under.
An abundance of modestly-priced new houses.
South Bend is quietly showing how it should be done. Michael's feed is full of examples of a blue city in a red state actually doing the abundance thing. Wish more cities (ahem, Durham) would follow.
Love to share the road with compensation-mobiles like this dude’s.
Quick bus trip out to the west side of Nashville for lunch.
Built in 1870, this triple-decker is among the earliest of its kind in New England. It would be illegal to build today… and it’s not even close… ❌min lot size ❌setbacks ❌parking ❌min lot size per unit, etc Why do we ban the places we fight so hard to protect? 📍Salem
What the absolute heck is this framing? This headline should read: "In order to preserve scientifically proven positive outcomes for their residents, states announce plans to coordinate on vaccines." or "States announce plans to coordinate on vaccines due to arsonits in charge of HHS"
The YIMBros are at it again! jesusurbanist.substack.com/p/nimbys-are...
V12 Vantage and Tiny truck
Amazing how all of the foundational lessons that adults teach their kids stop applying to their own lives at some point. It’s still important to share! It’s still important to be kind! It’s still important to help other people!
Second for Williamson county splash pad in Brentwood.
Successful first Vandy game for the Wildgirls. #anchordown
“Maps and Filters” tab on the top of this page is a great resource if you need public water stations (for the warmer half the year). experience.arcgis.com/experience/c...
No refill today, just 18 oz of water with an electrolyte packet. Today it lasted me the whole run but wouldn’t have been the case if it was 80° and 80% humidity. Chugged a bunch of water and a Celsius before the bus ride too.
I could swing the half (probably around a 8:30 pace) but I’m nowhere close to 26.2 right now.
If it’s anything like Broadway, agreed with Molly. I’d rather run past the wastewater treatment plant than over puke-lined sidewalks.
I’d post a photo essay of the most egregious examples in my camera roll but I don’t think it’s newsworthy to anyone who lives here.
Did 9 miles today, trying to decide if I’m running the Monte Sano 15K in Huntsville AL (my hometown) in October.
The latter. Bus to downtown, ran north on the riverfront greenway past Germantown, wound through metrocenter and headed back south to Salemtown to Jefferson Street bridge to Dickerson Pike, then zig-zagged across East Nashville neighborhoods to get back home.
I love this city. I will keep singing its praises and I will keep advocating for my neighbors and its leaders to make it better.
New bike lanes are good for everyone. Obviously good for people on bicycles, but sneakily great for pedestrians on sidewalks, buffering us from the cars speeding along at 40+ mph.
Zoning laws’ stated purpose is to separate uses, like keeping living quarters away from noxious industrial uses and chemical storage. Zoning laws’ actual purpose is to separate classes, like keeping apartment renters away from homeowners.
5:30 am bus to downtown for a long run kind of holiday weekend.
It’s pretty good! Ran into @elliottiii.bsky.social at the park tonight, it’s a sweet spot for young families of YIMBYs.
Walkable playgrounds are the gateway drug to turning skeptical spouses and susceptible babies into urbanists.
I’m in this tweet, because I want to live in a city my little girls can afford to live in 20 years from now, a city that protects the environment, a city that doesn’t require a car to navigate, a city that welcomes all AND has homes for anyone who wants to live here.
Shady bus stop Bench at the bus stop Ten minutes max between buses Favorite bus riding buddy The public transit is good today.
Nashville zoning laws make it easy to build $4M mansions for venture capitalists from California to gentrify former middle class neighborhoods but impossible to put 6 small cottages on a half acre lot that would cost 1/10th of the mansion... Many people are saying this should change.
I am sick and tired of surveys but I know the NIMBYs will be taking this one so I will be too.
If you live in Nashville and have thoughts about the zoning districts that Planning wants to use to equip Nashville’s council with a new tool for more homes, please take this survey today or tomorrow. publicinput.com/s50752
Oh wow when you capture the two universities who get to build as much housing as they want for over 5k students a piece, you end up with more people. Unrelated… Anyone want to start a university in East Nashville?
One day, the sports bars in my city won’t have to advertise that they come with free parking.
“I’m sorry I’m pulling up this ladder behind me but the traffic is just so bad already…!”
“Homeowners acting like a marginalized population because someone wants to develop near them … they’re not the marginalized ones. The ones who can’t afford homes are the marginalized ones.” Patrizio Murdocca with the facts.
So many people talk about buildings as if the most important aspect is how people from the outside view it. I would recommend people instead look at the sun or the beautiful birds or trees or smiling faces of your new neighbors who have a place to live.
Gentrification is going to kill the 28 unless we can figure out a way to upzone for more neighbors in a way that divides rising land cost across more homes.
Looks like the 34 and 76 need some additional frequency!
remarkable how quickly @nashvilledot.bsky.social can act to make our streets more dangerous and hostile, but then they just have a huge list of excuses when it comes to making our streets safer and more inviting places
Man I love vacant apartment towers downtown. One of my colleagues lives in the Albion tower downtown. Rent renewal comes up, they got a lower base rate than her last contract, plus the same 3 month free move-in-special that new renters would get.
Half credit. It's obviously a bus (lifted, like Miss Fritter from Cars 3). But you're right that it's bad at being a W
Agreed, corner lots should be much higher! Hard to get four floors and a corner store with 45 feet!
As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"
I think that reason is to keep the food service truck from parking in the bike lane?
Nashville has over 325,000 housing units (as of 2019). Article mentions adding 328 new units (1 for every 1,000 existing units). Nashville Planning dept estimates that Nashville needs to build an additional 9,000 units yearly to keep up with demand. This city needs to re-legalize more housing.
Speed cushions. A three way stop at Hume & 3rd. A stop sign that requires every driver to stop at the greenway every time. Or my favorite: pedestrianization 3rd avenue between Van Buren and Garfield. There is one curb cut and the parking lot it feeds into is accessible via 2nd.
These fellas walked faster than the most popular bus route in Nashville, TN. Shouldn't public transportation in a major US city move faster than people can walk?
At three miles an hour, you might be right. But I’m going to put on my running shoes and try racing it on a Friday rush hour. Bet I make it past Eastland before getting passed.
i was expecting them to beat me, but i didn't expect they would also catch up with the bus 15 minutes ahead of me and pass it too! how long will we have to wait to see the short term quick build improvements from Connect Downtown and CHYM actually implemented?
Bus lanes: better for residents, former residents visiting parents, tourists, businesses who rely on tourists, businesses who rely on locals, emergency response times, and bus drivers!
Omg the human vs. bus races have reached my hometown ❤️
The most fun I’ve had being upset about something. While I got to sit and have a beer with a friend, many on the bus were just trying to get home after a long day of keeping this city running. Somebody should really do something about this.
Hope that bus driver got a drink after his shift was over - I know I’d need one if I had to sit in Broadway traffic for half an hour!
Incredible content. Imagine how many more businesses could benefit from Nashville’s downtown tourists if those tourists knew a fast and reliable bus with dedicated lanes could take them quickly to nearby neighborhoods!
Watch Spencer and Neil walk across downtown Nashville (and then finish a pitcher of beer) faster than the bus on Nashville’s busiest bus route. Nashville’s government released a study “Connect Downtown” over a year ago, talking about the needed for bus lanes on this road, but has taken zero action!
We won. Watch me and @neilkornutick.bsky.social race the 55 in downtown Nashville on a Saturday night
I think the benches were better @nashvilledot.bsky.social
Floral Canyon album by *repeat repeat
Hot take: he won’t. Nashville is uniquely important to Tennessee’s tourist economy so keeping Nashville’s reputation up matters to the governor. Not to mention, a state police takeover of national conservatives’ favorite city will not play as well on Fox as the DC takeover.
Getting back across the river was brutal today, between the James Robertson center lane problem and the show.
We should use Nissan Sentra bumpers from the side of Ellington Parkway to protect bicycle riders on Hart Lane.
Hell yeah we are
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I think about it every time I dodge a dislodged armadillo, or see those hilarious split tire camel things down on the Shelby end of Riverside.
Moxie imagine how inexpensive it would be to re-stripe Woodland between 5th and 10th and drop a couple dozen of these between the cars drivers and the bicycle riders. We might save the city millions of dollars they planned to spend on engineering and design and installation for bespoke bioswales!
Here’s a route that would immediately generate meaningful ridership and be worth the state investment to double track the CSX rail. (Note: the WeGo Star is on that yellow line that goes straight East from downtown.)
Would love to see rail expansion but for now it looks like we’ll have to wait for Tennessee to test out toll lanes as the cure for traffic before the state looks at regional transit.
Positive train control is the big gap to expanding existing service: has been too expensive for the current low ridership. The Star is on a short line (Nashville & Eastern) and not on the major CSX lines that go out of the city - need the state to throw muscle at CSX to ever share that RoW :(
I will donate $100 to the political campaign of the councilmember’s choice to the first Nashville councilmember who can get precast concrete (parking bumpers, jersey barriers, etc) installed to protect >1/4 mile of bike lanes in their district. (Applies to NDOT or TDOT installation, no greenways)
Very funny to me that transpo engineers keep specifying new versions of short, bolt down bike lane curbs of various shapes and sizes when they could simply source precast parking bumpers locally for the same cost. Who needs bespoke stuff from Europe? Let American car culture work for you!
Nashville's WeGo Star posts 6th highest ridership increase among US commuter rail agencies in the first half of 2025!* *by percentage
come cheer on the 5k route early in the morning. you'll catch your favorite nashville urban design tweeter/skeeter, the president of the most progressive east nashville neighborhood association, and me among the runners!
Loading zones are a great tool that are underutilized outside of downtown and maybe midtown. But seems like a wide road with lanes to pass the delivery truck is better than when the delivery truck blocks the sidewalk or the only travel lane
Serendipitously running into your friend while riding the bus is ~ 100% good.
Hah! Nashville's got the same transplant ratio as Manhattan, you'd think we'd be ripe for the conversation. IMO everyone should be volunteering and contributing to their community...? old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
Sounds a bit boomerish to say but I think I agree - it’s the ingredients. That said, the Dickerson pike TB is the best one on our side of Nashville, and I’ll also visit the Glenbrook one in Hendersonville and the Lebanon Pike Donelson location.
Hey @jkupin4d19.bsky.social didn’t my government just rip out some bike lanes around the corner from this to put in some loading zones? Why are we letting box trucks load in the Church St bike lanes? And how can we get some concrete protection for these lanes?
Forget “4 floors and a corner store” give me help to find a catchy rhyme that says something like “5 floors and a Taco Bell”
And those same people would never live on the west side of Ellington Parkway or the north side of Charlotte Pike or on the east side of Edmondson Pike or on the northwest side of Harding Pike.
The approved SP is replacing the old Panorama affordable housing apartment complex at 1500 Porter with increased density and mixed uses. The section 8 vouchers have been transferred to a new development in Madison (Berkshire apartments).
Imagine how much better the Gallatin Pike Taco Bell would be if this franchise owner bought our crappy Taco Bell and replaced it with one of these bad boys (and competent management)
This is the future the YIMBYs want (it’s me, I’m the YIMBYs)
Porter and Cahal is the only non-contentious in-neighborhood large dense multifamily project I’ve seen on this side of the river without wailing and gnashing of teeth from the neighborhood. And it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out why.
I want more people to live in my neighborhood.
This thread is a little stream-of-consciousness and doesn't have a great so-what, except maybe this: You'll find me advocating for change that helps fight rising cost of living; that helps keeps the neighborhood characters in their neighborhoods; that helps more than just existing property owners.
This neighbor lamented worsening traffic as a concern with all the new development. I checked the stats: daily traffic on our section of Gallatin Pike (that main road) is at a 30 year low! Memories are unreliable; many people don't like change. But a growing city is going to change, no matter what.
This neighbor went on about how the only good thing was that her friends had been moving from (more expensive) neighborhoods in Nashville to her area. Gentrification is pushing her social circle out of their neighborhoods into her neighborhood. I'd never thought about that dynamic.
I was chatting with a friend of a friend who's been in my neighborhood since the early 90s. House is 3 parcels off of Gallatin Pike, a >20k-cars-a-day road. She described nearly all change as negative, and said that a lot at the end of her block had her anxiety going crazy. I get it, change is hard!
Permitting more housing in expensive neighborhoods of Nashville will reduce gentrification pressures in SE Nashville. SE Nashville CMs who care about their district's cost of living should be supporting every possible upzoning in West Nashville.
