@kemcdonell.bsky.social
Cognitive neurologist, safe streets advocate, cargo bike mom Nashville, TN
But WHY haven't you eaten the steak? We need to be eating the steak so we can get more steak. Instead we keep saying we don't have enough steak
22.11.2025 02:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I asked that exact question at BPAC last week and was told that CHYM funding was intended to be on top of existing funding:
www.youtube.com/live/7dNVLEs...
Thought it was supposed to be additive
21.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A screenshot of sidewalk and bikeway funding from the capital spending plan
Anyone have a spreadsheet of sidewalk and bikeway funding over the past few years @jerewoo.bsky.social? Seems like this is a decrease.
www.nashville.gov/departments/...
Great infrastructure design induces demand.
21.11.2025 01:07 — 👍 60 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
[ Chicago Tuesday 12/9 ] In-person & Online. Join our report out. “Bicyclist Fatalities: Investigating USDOT-Registered Carriers, City of Chicago Contracts, & Insurance Networks”
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Just now on a 4 block stretch of 40th St (2 way protected bikeway) as it’s getting dark & a bit chilly (feels like temp is 39°F) I saw:
-3 Urban Arrows (front loader e cargo bikes)
-2 long tail e cargo bikes
-a Burley trailer
-a 12/13yo riding solo
We get the traffic we design & build for.
🚲 ❤️
“I’ve commuted from Madison to downtown on my e-bike, ending the ride on Rolling Mill Hill Greenway.” - Meg Morgan, Greenways for Nashville Executive Director
“I’ve commuted from Madison to downtown on my e-bike, ending the ride on Rolling Mill Hill Greenway.”
the new Greenways for Nashville executive director rides an e-bike on greenways. we did it, fam
If we are serious about pedestrian safety there's really only one way to ensure that vehicles will slow down and pay attention.. & that is to build infrastructure that forces drivers to slow down and pay attention.
There may be outcry, but drivers will adjust to traffic calming. They always do.
Today’s episode of “there is a better way.” Helsinki went a full year without a car-related fatality. For the 90th million time, we ask-why not here? Why can’t we have the healthy, safe, secure, efficient, civilized goods others have: schools free of mass shootings, safe sidewalks, health care…
18.11.2025 05:47 — 👍 469 🔁 157 💬 10 📌 18
As we push all kinds of investments from Choose How You Move—our transit improvement program—out into the city, we want you to know how they're improving your neighborhood.
Here are improvements by #MetroCouncilNash district:
www.nashville.gov/featured-ini...
Is our policy now trying to imply that Dot Dobbins deserved what happened because she didn’t do these things?
18.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A car parked at the entrance to a bike lane, adjacent to a "bike lane open" sign
A sign indicating that the bike lane will be closed on Wednesday from 2pm - 8pm
Did have to ask the security guard to move his car over a couple feet, but I appreciated the clear signage indicating that the bike lane is open today and will be closed tomorrow between 2-8pm only. Definitely an improvement from previous CMA's when this route has been inaccessible all week.
18.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 36 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0It was news to all of us at the meeting that these were being replaced with new signs that none of us had seen. Very much appreciated the concerns raised by Commissioner Haney.
@pete-nash.bsky.social can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe VZAC was consulted regarding this either.
I drove through this today. It is a very active, two-way greenway crossing.
There was NOTHING telling me as a driver to look both ways. Nothing.
Despite being the vulnerable users, bicyclists and peds are held to a higher standard of safety every time so we can avoid motor vehicle blame and delay.
Update: this is not what we meant
18.11.2025 15:53 — 👍 38 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 8We also have subcommittee meetings starting at 4pm in the ITS conference room on the 3rd floor. These are open and accessible to the public as well!
17.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A flyer for the BPAC meeting on November 17th
Come join us for BPAC tonight!
Highlights include:
🔹 Update on East Bank Boulevard from Director Alarcon
🔹 Update on CHYM from Michael Briggs
🔹First look at the new Ascend greenway
🔹 Presentation on access management
🔹 Bike share RFP update
www.nashville.gov/departments/...
When you hear someone say we can’t do active or public transportation in the US, just know we are the global outlier - an aberrant society missing something that the rest of the world has already discovered or never forgot
16.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 76 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 1This is incredible.
15.11.2025 01:20 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0It's almost time!🎄
14.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A selfie of a woman carrying traffic cones on her bike
Totally normal, it's fine.
14.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
BPAC agenda for 11/17/25 https://www.nashville.gov/departments/transportation/boards/bpac/meetings/bicycle-and-pedestrian-advisory-commission-meeting-november-17-2025
BPAC agenda for 11/17/25 https://www.nashville.gov/departments/transportation/boards/bpac/meetings/bicycle-and-pedestrian-advisory-commission-meeting-november-17-2025
We've got a packed agenda for our next BPAC meeting on Monday. Come join us in person or on YouTube!
www.nashville.gov/departments/...
Photo of a black Nissan Rogue approaching my bike from the rear, far too close.
Phot of a black Nissan Rogue, TN plate 3 PD 3046, Davidson County, driving away after passing so close that the car bumped my elbow.
A black Nissan Rogue, TN plate 3 PD 3046, Davidson County, bumped me while I was riding my bike on Charlotte Ave today, near 28th in Nashville. I was not injured or knocked off my bike, but he drove close enough to hit my elbow. TN law says to give bikes 3 feet of room when passing.
14.11.2025 01:53 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 1Yes. 🙄 Concerns have been expressed. We gotta get the details right here, and robust protection is the most important part. We're voting on a statement on the redesign on Monday.
14.11.2025 01:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The designs that were presented at BPAC in September were essentially that - one-way bike lanes on each side with concrete protection. This would be a huge improvement.
Presentation starts here around 1:11 www.youtube.com/live/rNCqod5...
A car parked in the bike lane on Commerce St
A car parked in the bike lane on Commerce St
Paid a visit to Commerce St
this evening, immediately regretted it
The best part of this story is that she carried it all the way home 🥹
13.11.2025 23:57 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Nine hundred people have died in traffic crashes in Tennessee so far in 2025. We grieve for these victims, and we join their families in calling for legislation to prevent more tragedies on our streets.
Join us Saturday for World Day of Remembrance for Crash Victims in Murfreesboro.
Maybe we could just take this lane back for a bike lane
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