Anyway here's @hubnashville.bsky.social fully endorsing 18 wheelers illegally parking in bicycle lanes @nashvilledot.bsky.social @walkbikenashville.bsky.social @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social

The research is clear: Cities have many reliable ways to curtail speeding. Lower the posted limit. Deploy traffic cameras. Insert speed humps. Install road diets. They all work – and most residents support them.But implementation often feels like pulling teeth. In Bloomberg, I explored why.

I know there’s still probably a good deal of tree cleanup needed but has anyone seen DemonBroomin out since the storm? The bike lanes may be free of snow and ice but now they are full of debris.

Despite several HubNashville tickets this power line as well as some large tree limbs (off picture) are still down near the McCabe Community Center. This sidewalk is still hazardous and impassable 2 weeks after the storm. @brendagadd.bsky.social any chance you can help escalate this cleanup please?

One house turns into 17 homes in Seattle. (2014➡️2017)

Oh and we absolutely have mini snow plows to do snow removal from bike lanes in Boston. Again this is from years ago (December 2020) as we haven't had much snow in recent years This is from a walk audit on Cummins Highway. Most pedestrians were using the bike lane as the sidewalks weren't clear

ICYMI: “In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike-lanes aren’t fit for office.”— @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, pollution, city noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, and not nearly enough space in cities.

As a bike commuter it’s really appalling how often you witness drivers operating 2 ton motor vehicles while scrolling on their phone as if they were on the couch. How is this so common? How did we let it get this bad?

Driver: "Use the bike lane!" The bike lane:

Issuing unshoveled sidewalk violations? Lovely. Nashville can’t even shovel its own public infrastructure like the pedestrian bridge.

This is straight up embarrassing at this point. People trying to get to the Preds game having to hold on to the rail so they don't fall on the ice. It's been 9 days and there's still no safe way across the river.

Pedestrian bridge is still a mess, and the one "open" sidewalk on the Woodland Street bridge looks like this. Not only do people still not have power, they can't even access the city without using a car.

Should I put this in Hub Nashville? What can you do if the guys you call to ticket drivers that park in bike lanes also park in the bike lanes. We are not a real city.

Protected bike lanes = One Weird Trick to Massively Increase Cycling

Our priorities are exactly the opposite of what they should be as a society. Snow should be cleared off of sidewalks and crosswalks onto car lanes on the vast majority of streets in a major city. Clear a few emergency routes for ambulances and major bus routes and otherwise people should be walking.

Connect Downtown yesterday

Nashville sidewalks and bike lanes are just as bad right now. If the most walkable city in the US can’t even get this right, should I feel better about Nashville or hopeless about this country as a whole? nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/26/c...

Here are our full recommendations. 2026 should be the year of active transportation infrastructure in Nashville. We have the funding - let's do this.

Absolutely insane that we ripped out a block of a mobility lane with zero indication to its users that it’s gone. What was I even supposed to do here? All for like 2 parking spots, with no ~community engagement~. Hard to see Connect Downtown as anything beyond a dead letter at this point

We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are. The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

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.

"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.

@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.

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 www.seattle.gov/transportati...

"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?

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.

e-bikes > cars for most trips and they won't bankrupt you great inflation and resiliency hack given... everything www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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

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

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.

If you’re waiting for there to be more bikers in order to build bike lanes, you’ve got it backwards

👇New Nature Cities (@nature.com) paper on the impact of protected bike lanes in getting more people cycling. Comparing 28 US cities over 6 years, it found areas that installed protected lanes saw 𝟭.𝟴𝘅 growth in cycling vs painted lanes alone. And 𝟰.𝟴𝘅 the growth of areas with no bike lanes at all.

Chinese HSR does Beijing-Shanghai – which is about the distance as NYC-Atlanta – in just over four hours, and gets six times the ridership of airlines. $1.8 billion in net profit last year. scmp.com/economy/chin...

Live every day like it’s Bike to Work Day.

And here's the full text of my public comments. We need honesty, transparency, and leadership right now. It's time for the people in charge to stand up and do the right thing.

The NYPD's crackdown on bicyclists is an egregious escalation that does nothing to make our streets safer. Why should a cyclist get a court date when a driver would receive a ticket for the same infraction — even though drivers cause substantially more risk to pedestrians?