The sponsor keeps saying this won’t ban e-bikes but it WILL allow cities or TDOT to restrict e-bikes on any street they decide it’s necessary. Meanwhile, a separate bill passed that stripped local authority to restrict delivery robots on bike lanes + sidewalks More rights for robots than e-bikers

If you or anybody you know are worried about gas prices going up, now is as good a time as any to become @walkbikenashville.bsky.social member. Ride the bus all year -$ 50. 1/2 price bcycle . Dedicated support network to annoy council for more bike lanes. www.walkbikenashville.org/membership

I thought the same thing on my way to the courthouse monday. At least while JRP is down. Need to protect at least to 5th.

Current cross section on Woodland Bridge. It’s for a maintenance project but imagine this as a bikeway and protected sidewalk. Turn the third travel lane into a flex lane like JRP. We’d be cookin’

After this tunnel resolution, let’s not lose sight that Murfreesboro Pk is CHYM’s “magic corridor” with its combination of ROW, high ridership, and connection to BNA and Murfreesboro Since Nashville has no formal power over Boring, let’s fight and win this debate in the court of public opinion

Metro Council after dark + Texas primary after dark. Electric Tuesday.

We’re talking Tesla Tunnels tonight. Free food @ 530.

Lesson from today’s ACT meeting, the navigation button at the top of nashville.gov/transit is helpful! I had never noticed it on desktop

$5 million sure would accelerate bus rapid transit to the airport — a project two thirds of Nashvillians voted for. Instead, Tennessee taxpayers are paying $5 million for oversight. Not infrastructure, oversight. Oversight on a project no one asked for that’s delaying progress on better solutions

This is the form email Jack Johnson's office is sending to constituents regarding SB 1782, which opens the door for local govs and state agencies to ban e-bikes and bans Class 3 on TN roads. Walk Bike Nashville and Bike Walk TN are pushing for a deferral on this bill (1/ )

I thank Director Alarcon for her work with NDOT. I regularly disagreed with decisions and priorities but I acknowledge the weight and challenges of leading a DOT both as far behind and expansive as Nashville. Ultimately, I always want our leadership to bring Nashville to the greatness it deserves.

Mukhtar ➡️ Espinoza ➡️ Surridge Get used to this, Nashville fans.

Driver speeds and lightning are huge factors in pedestrian deaths. The LED streetlight retrofit is a huge improvement but without a strategy for incrementally lowering speeds across Nashville’s high injury network, we won’t achieve Vision Zero

Looping line at Lentz still with polls closing in 20 min. D7 turning out!

Emails continue to come in & council members continue to issue public statements urging WeGo to call a Board meeting. I thought it would be helpful to share my conversations with my colleagues, so I’ve started a thread on what my experience has been. publicsquare.nashville.gov/2023-2027-te... /1

WeGo: Call a special meeting of the board to update the public. Precedent for special called meetings is 5 days notice. Get it on the calendar. Journey Pass cannot enroll riders at-scale, and we’re pulling resources away from other priorities. Bag the box. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/07/w...

We create so many unnecessary burdens for both the provider and recipient rather than doing the morally correct and bureaucratically efficient thing.

I'm not a proponent of Free Fare Transit. Right now is different. This is about people getting food in their stomachs. WeGo should go completely fare free until SNAP gets turned back on.

THEY ARE NOT ALLOWING ANY MORE PEOPLE IN LINE AT MAC TO RECEIVE JOURNEY PASSES. Tell your people so they don’t waste time and money trying to get there. This was entirely avoidable. We knew people were going to come out like crazy for these passes. Free bus access is life changing. #bagthefarebox

Updates from MAC journey pass distro event #2: -people are being denied passes for not having accepted documentation -they are accepting physical EBT cards as proof of snap -they are accepting homelessness affidavits our outreach workers brought with *just in case*

Heard from a volunteer with Dream Streets yesterday. They extended their food distribution hours bc people were choosing between getting a Journey Pass and getting food… exactly what advocates warned would happen. Bag. The. Box.

Bag the box!

Council just unanimously approved a bus fare suspension amendment to a SNAP resolution (left). WeGo announced new Journey Pass enrollment events earlier today (right) but council just sent a clear message that we must do more Share these events with SNAP recipients and service providers:

@johnwesssley.bsky.social dropping stats for the need for a fare freeze, and acknowledging that a sales tax is a regressive tax. Join his call for a fare freeze here. I did. bsky.app/profile/john...

With SNAP cut, transit should be a lifeline, not another financial hurdle. Tell WeGo and the mayor’s office to suspend fares as an emergency measure: tinyurl.com/FreezeFaresNash

Why does everything have to be a fight? Just let people who have a SNAP card on the bus.

There is a fare freeze resolution on the council’s agenda tomorrow. It is an amendment to @erinfor12.bsky.social’s SNAP resolution. Let your council members know:

We had free bus fares yesterday for a Titans home game. There was no outcry that we “took a benefit away”

CMs Suara, Porterfield, Vo, @rollinhorton.bsky.social and @brendagadd.bsky.social have joined the coalition calling for a fare freeze since Friday

Household budgets are already strained and they're about to get *much* tighter as the federal government fails to fund family nutrition. Suspending fares until this gets resolved would provide relief and I hope WeGo will do it.

Sign onto the form @johnwesssley.bsky.social linked and use the below template to email leadership at WeGo, CHYM and the Mayor! We have to do what we can to ease the crushing burden of SNAP cuts on our most vulnerable neighbors. We take care of each other ❤️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A growing coalition is calling on WeGo to freeze fares during the lapse in SNAP benefits. Riders shouldn’t have to choose between going to the food bank and going to a Metro agency to get a bus pass. Let’s make transit a lifeline, not a burden. Add your name or org: docs.google.com/forms/d/1sPu...

TN-7 TOTAL PRIMARY BALLOTS Republicans: 36,862 (54.3%) Democrats: 31,005 (45.7%) Difference: 5,857 (with > 95% in) In the 2024 primary, the gap was 59/41 and ~9,300 votes for the GOP

Decision desk, HQ has called the Democratic primary and congressional district 7 Rep. Aftyn Behn. Behn spent less money than any of the three other candidates.

Early vote is in. Bo Mitchell leads Aftyn Behn by < 100 votes. < 1000 votes separate first and fourth:

District 7 special election results by county: www.elections.tn.gov/categories/u... Early vote is in in 12/14 counties (Benton, Humphreys)

REMATCH! Bus with a dedicated lane beats walking!

Shortly after Dot Dobbins was killed crossing 3rd Ave, a traffic signal was installed at Van Buren and 3rd. The Vision Zero committee expressed concerns when this was presented during the fatal crash review in July, but it was installed anyway. Since, another pedestrian has been hit here 1/

Statement from WeGo does not dispute any info about the flaws in this process. There’s also a more fundamental issue here. When ridership and profitability are at odds for a public transit agency, they should choose ridership. I care about fairness too. So, let’s give more people a good deal.

TL:DR- WeGo is doubling Walk Bike's QuickTicket rate and gave three weeks notice to come up with $20,000 in additional renewal fees. This program should be celebrated and replicated but instead, we're having to pause it. The WeGo Ride program can be great but the current structure is not sustainable

Re: Tomato Fest Bike parking at S 12th St and Russell.

FYI. It should also be noted that WBN is not doing bike concierge at Tomato Fest either.

Tomato Fest Bike Parking Info: - Bike 🅿️ at Russell & 12th (not WBN valet, bring a lock) - Bikes prohibited on event footprint - No access to Five Points BCycle station Share with anyone biking to TF this weekend

WeGo now supports easy payments. That means you just pull out your debit or credit card or use a phone payment thing when you board. No account, no forms, no apps. Best part: fare capping in full effect

The Planning Commission was likely going to defer the Nations rezoning and UDO until Acting Chair Henley said this. It takes courage to support divisive topics but we mostly agree on this: we need more housing options to be a more inclusive city. The Nations took a big step in the right direction tn

NATIONS DUB. MORE NEIGHBORS. ON TO COUNCIL.

Dogs out during a public meeting? Not in my backyard

Y’all. Nashville just hosted its biggest ever open streets event — a 5 mile loop open to people and closed to cars for a Sunday afternoon @walkbikenashville.bsky.social and @nashvilledot.bsky.social made it happen and ALL Y’ALL made it great! Let’s do it again August 17!

The funny thing about induced demand is that everyone thinks they can plan the right roads to get around it, yet no one successfully does. I’ve yet to see a way EBB doesn’t become gridlock - the map apps will make it an alt route & it will just be that way. www.nashvillescene.com/news/metropo...