Chris Bowe

Was blessed with two:

Best Hair - Male (texture based, not based on appearance)

Worst Case of Senioritis - Male (basically biggest slacker)

@ me, you coward

I would personally love to restore the historic zoning classification for my property (R8 from 1974 - 1998, instead of RS7.5).

My neighborhood could be rebuilt to serve nearly twice as many residents as it does today with that simple nod to classic Old Nashville values!

I agree wholeheartedly with Jeremiah here. Claiming the space is always the step #1.

It's a doubled edged sword though and does feed the "nobody is using bike lanes" backlash. But I think you'll get a similar volume of that no matter what it looks like. Just gotta push through and keeping building

Two tour buses parked on the Demonbruen viaduct

The fact that this can be spontaneously converted into tour bus parking is a pretty strong argument for the “center turn lanes on bridges are superfluous” camp

7 more innings tonight and the vibes are still immaculate!

Really wish we could recruit the catcher from the other team to be on our team.

@jeguth.bsky.social was dealing some of the filthiest stuff I’ve ever had the good fortune to glove.

Baseball can cure you - come on out and give it a try

I'm so optimistic about the future of Nashville precisely because our governing apparatus is recognizing the mistakes of our past exclusionary zoning practice and is actively working towards making our city more welcoming, vibrant, & diverse.

We can all be the WeHo or the Nations!

So what prevents more houses?

Current zoning often prevents property owners from building more homes on their own property, even if they would prefer to do so. Liberalizing those built in restrictions would allow more houses to be built more quickly and cost effectively. Again - a cold, hard fact!

I cannot think of one single argument in favor of option 2. It directly and negatively impacts the existing residents quality of life in an often futile attempt to "maintain the character" of a neighborhood. Who wants to make their neighborhood worse?

Absent one or the other, the place will inevitably shift toward higher income, wealthier, often whiter populations as they outbid existing residents. There is no debate on this fact - we have seen it again and again, place after place!

I am, in fact, a direct participant in this effect!

It is my deeply held belief that there are 2 ways to prevent displacement of existing residents in a desirable location:

1. Build more houses
2. Deliberately make the place less desirable to live in

Only one of those options can possibly result in a higher quality of life for existing residents!

people need to take more responsibility for “we literally made it illegal for teenagers to hang out outside of the house or school”

The Critical Mass ride was so so good. Nothing makes me feel like a kid again like carefree riding with 50+ new and old friends!

The closures were really effective and shout out to the traffic control folks for making sure we could glide through intersections.

Can’t wait to do it again next month!

Today! 1:00 PM at Frankie Pierce Park. Come take a lap of the @walkbikenashville.bsky.social Open Streets Summer Series with all of your friends on bikes, and any wheel-centric human-powered movement!

Wear Sunscreen, bring water, look out for one another!

YouTube video by Civic Design Center Heart of the City: Reimagining WeGo Plaza

Good video featuring some WeGo Youth Action Team members exploring what a more activated WeGo Plaza could look like.

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Shade is the number one need here.

I’m guessing this space has been intentionally kept bare in an attempt to keep people from loitering, which is both cruel and not working.

I doubt large trees are viable on the top of deck, so creativity required!

That would be much preferred, tbh

Vision Zero Advisory Committee Application As outlined in Nashville’s Vision Zero Implementation Plan, the Vision Zero Advisory Committee is an 15-member group that will meet monthly to...

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We will be selecting for the two current open positions from the list of existing applications, but will consider new applications at the end of this year as folks roll off the committee from their first terms!

I’ve put in a request to get the application link reposted to the Vision Zero website. Hopefully it will go live again shortly. Otherwise I’ll post the link here when I receive!

On the other hand, it cost like $150k to remove stripes and restripe 9th, and we move loading zones around on a monthly basis... Would hate for it to cost a bunch of random NDOT dollars to relocate zones after every T&P meeting, lol.

“See if you play the first three innings really hard, call that Game 1.

Now I’m onto Game 2 in the 4th. By the time we’re in the late innings, I’ve already played in three games in one day…”

I played 9 innings of baseball today and it was so good

Shocked more of you aren’t getting in on this

Bruh, have you ever seen a photo of prime Nadal? Dude’s left arm was like 1.75x larger than his right arm, lol

Ooooh, I've never seen a drainage channel poured into the concrete like that before. Definitely looks nicer than the metal plate over a metal channel!

Nashville road deaths and strategies for prevention - Nashville Banner Nashville faces a concerning number of car crashes and fatalities, highlighting the need for infrastructure changes and a shift in driving culture.

In each of the past three years, more than 100 people have died in car crashes on Nashville roads. The city has committed to getting that number to zero, but advocates say it's not moving fast enough.

Story: @iamstevenhale.bsky.social

On TOP of the budget requested by NDOT for everything non-CHYM related. NDOT should have effectively received a huge increase in funding in the latest budget, right?

We are literally receiving tens of millions of dollars per month in dedicated transportation funding…

He also made some gross comments about rainbow crosswalks on social media when publicizing this letter, but the actual content is pretty direct and unambiguously good