Nashville's Neighborhood Street Traffic Calming Program

Nashville's Neighborhood Street Traffic Calming Program is designed to identify, prioritize, and help mitigate the undesirable effects of traffic in residential neighborhoods.

The most common goals for traffic calming projects are:

1. lower traffic speeds, and
2. safer street accommodations for non-drivers.

Traffic calming represents the continual effort and commitment of the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) to improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods. Recommended improvements should be an enhancement to each neighborhood and projects are therefore developed in concert with residents.

To provide a fair evaluation of a very high number of neighborhoods desiring to participate, applications for traffic calming are accepted only during specified times. The Neighborhood Street Traffic Calming (NSTC) program will open its next application window September 3, 2024 through September 16, 2024.