The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure is announcing 24 newly selected neighborhood traffic calming projects to begin this summer. The selected projects were chosen from neighborhoods that submitted applications in 2020 and will now proceed with a community-led design process.
NDOT opens two traffic calming application periods per year—one in January and one in July. Neighborhoods are able to submit completed applications during each of these multi-week time periods. Once the application window has closed, NDOT begins data collection in each neighborhood to determine how they score.
“Traffic calming is one of the most important investments we can make to create safer neighborhoods,” said Mayor Cooper. “Our new budget and the creation of NDOT will lead to more projects in more neighborhoods that help us reduce speed, prevent collisions, and protect lives.”
Metro’s Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program, managed by NDOT, is a capital budget funded program that received $4 million in the most recent spending plan. The department currently has plans to announce more projects this Fall, as well as another round in Spring of 2022. There are over 200 neighborhoods in the queue for traffic calming.
“We’re grateful to Mayor Cooper and Metro Council for recognizing how vital this program is and funding it appropriately. Slowing traffic on our neighborhood streets and making streets more comfortable for residents is an important part of our work at NDOT, and the popularity of this program reflects that,” said Faye DiMassimo, Interim Director of NDOT.
Based on applications and data collected, NDOT staff selected the following neighborhoods:
- Forest Cove
- Valley View
- Bellshire Terrace
- McMurray Hills
- Sevier Park
- Anderson Lane North
- Radnor Lake
- McFerrin Park
- Hillhurst
- Owendale
- Haywood Heights
- Renraw
- Cherokee Park
- O’Brien
- Ocala
- Overhill
- W Marathona
- Woodbine
- Lakeland Pointe
- Belmont Park Terrace
- Litton
- Rosebank
- Castlegate
- North Crieve Hall
Projects were selected based on a set of criteria focusing on four areas: safety/crash history, average speed, neighborhood destinations, and the presence/absence of active transportation infrastructure, like sidewalks. NDOT engineers compiled this data for each neighborhood and scores for the 50 highest needs are included in the attached chart.
Coordination with council members and neighborhoods will begin in the next few weeks. Staff will attend neighborhood meetings and plan community workshops to collaborate with residents on the best design for each street.
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Traffic Calming Example Using a Speed Hump