The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) and District 8 Council Member Nancy VanReece celebrated the completion of the Madison Station Boulevard Complete and Green Street Project at an event earlier today. Also in attendance at the event were State Rep. Bill Beck, representatives from the Madison Rivergate Area Chamber of Commerce, FiftyForward Madison, and more. Students from Maplewood, Hunters Lane, and Goodpasture High School led a marching band parade down the newly completed roadway to mark the occasion. The event concluded with an official ribbon-cutting to ceremonially open the new street.
"I'm so grateful to see this project focused on neighborhood priorities and quality of life. Madison Station Boulevard was designed with community input and creates a place that will provide a new front door for FiftyForward, be home to a new worldwide destination, Timberhawk Hall, and the neighborhood focused Amqui Station campus,” said District 8 Council Member Nancy VanReece. “It also gets us closer to the new park and leads into the future expansive Madison Station development by Artesia. The entire Madison community and property owners all the way to Old Hickory Blvd have been anxiously awaiting this day."
The project, which creates a new connected roadway network and access to Gallatin Pike and Old Hickory Boulevard, was in pre-development for several years. The new complete street addresses local connectivity issues that have persisted for decades. It was completed on time and cost around $12 million. Madison Station Boulevard features sidewalks, bikeways, a roundabout, bioswale stormwater infrastructure, landscaping with irrigation, and more. The project is considered a blueprint for how NDOT looks to implement complete streets in the future.
“Nashville is growing so rapidly, and our infrastructure investments should match that growth,” said NDOT Director Diana Alarcon. “Complete & green street projects like Madison Station Boulevard are essential to connecting all of our roadway users—pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists—to the places they want and need to go. I’m so proud of this project, and I’m so grateful to the council member and the Madison community for helping us make this a success. Be ready to see more projects like this in the future.”
The project team for Madison Station Boulevard included TTL, Inc. as the prime design consultant with support from Hawkins Partners, Booker Engineering, R.G. Phillips Consulting, and Varallo Public Relations. The construction team was led by Kiewit.
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