I blame e-bikes

Every intersection in Germantown should be day lit with bike parking. Kill two birds with one stone. Prevent drivers from parking illegally and provide sorely needed bike parking.

This is the main issue I have with so much of the coverage around e-bikes. It's not that there aren't legitimate issues. But there is a panic around e-bikes and crickets regarding the daily toll of cars. And that's because the harm of cars is just accepted. It's baked into our society.

Republicans Want to Scare You off Mass Transit. Cars Are Scarier. A fatal stabbing on Charlotte Light Rail set off a panic about the risks of public transportation. There’s just one thing: It’s worlds safer than cars.

"Ginning up a moral panic over public transportation is a thinly veiled pretext to starve it of the resources that could make it even safer." @via @katearonoff.bsky.social

Today's bike lane blockages. 2706 Natchez Trace, 971 Church, and same company, same truck as last week at 947 Church. @nashvilledot.bsky.social can save money by installing concrete protection instead of flexiposts that drivers ignore & sending "enforcement" personnel where violations have ended.

Or better yet @civicdesigncenter.bsky.social let’s get some parklets going!!

@nashvilledot.bsky.social y’all got any more of them giant concrete balls? Demonbruen hill could use them so that drivers won’t drive through the bike lane or over the concrete, damaging it, in order to park for free along the curb.

All 3 of my Hub requests from this week regarding vehicles in the Church St bike lane also resulted in GOA responses. It’s honestly insulting to continue urging us to report this stuff when really it’s just a big waste of time.

Yeah I’ve still never gotten anyone ticketed despite all my hub requests, and that includes the times I’ve called the hub phone number in addition to putting it in the app. We are not a real city.

Nashville’s hottest parking lot is the Church St bike lane. @nashvilledot.bsky.social @hubnashville.bsky.social

How about it? @nashvilledot.bsky.social @freddieoconnell.bsky.social @seanforfive.bsky.social @quinevanssegall.bsky.social

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That’s $360k worth of lawsuits right there 😅

From E-Bikes to Scooters, Roads Are Getting More Crowded and Confusing Cities are trying to figure out how to accommodate the boom in two-wheelers that threaten safety for pedestrians and riders.

"Cities are facing a two-wheeled traffic jam."

Bullshit. They're suffering from a 4-wheeled infestation.

Hey @jkupin4d19.bsky.social didn’t my government just rip out some bike lanes around the corner from this to put in some loading zones? Why are we letting box trucks load in the Church St bike lanes? And how can we get some concrete protection for these lanes?

Uber and the road construction lobby just killed Illinois' transit funding bill, and your lawmakers let them - Streetsblog Chicago Update 6/17/25, 10:30 PM: Today the statehouse news website Capitol Fax ran a blog post supposedly debunking this guest op-ed . After publishing his piece, Capitol Fax Editor Rich Miller stated in his...

I would welcome a publicly funded bike share system in Nashville! Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. That said, not all for profit companies are created equal.

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Fair point. That way Lime can spend less on employees and pocket even more profit. Love it!

There has to be a way to keep a nice park at the end of our main tourist strip looking a little more put together than this. Moving and re organizing dockless mobility devices should not fall on BCycle and NDP workers. @hubnashville.bsky.social @nashvilledot.bsky.social @limebike.bsky.social

On gridded neighborhood streets with no sidewalks like this, we should just make them either one way or two way shared no parking. Take a lane and make a protected multi use path

@nashvilledot.bsky.social @hubnashville.bsky.social While I do appreciate the long awaited addition of any kind of delineators on Church St, flex posts are hardly a silver bullet here. Enforcement HAS to be utilized in tandem with infrastructure if people are ever going to learn.

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e-bikes > cars for most trips

and they won't bankrupt you

great inflation and resiliency hack given... everything

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Calling that number has yet to help me unfortunately. Both times I called after submitting tickets they still responded hours later and hit me with “GOA.”

Improperly parked vehicle requests should probably just expire after some amount of time (maybe 4-8 hours?). Sending someone out days later does not seem like the best use of resources of @hubnashville.bsky.social & @nashvilledot.bsky.social

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Wow y'all looks like the extra lane didn't fix the traffic

Don't. Subsidize. Parking for privately-owned autos.

If they were really serious they would raise the crosswalk and put in a HAWK signal. Those little crosswalk signs often disappear because drivers hit them.

Cars and trucks parked in a bike lane

Over the weekend, a woman was killed in a crosswalk in Germantown and a pedicab operator was sent to the hospital and yet this is what I have to contend with on Church St this morning. @nashvilledot.bsky.social & @hubnashville.bsky.social, have we just given up completely on Church St?

This is a bad idea. This loading zone is heavily used and has helped significantly to keep drivers out of the bike lane.

Converting it back to a through lane will increase conflicts for all modes, make it harder for pedestrians to cross, and push delivery drivers back into the bike lane.