I thought the WeGo bus was free today but no. Just broken fareboxes, two in a row. I do hope (but doubt) that we're getting counted. The buses are packed because I think today is a half day for schools.

Bring back the quiet library.

Maybe I'll put in a WeGotransit.com comment: if a bus is skipped, do inform the other bus operators on the line. Frustrating day for me.

This my unlucky bus week. I got out of the pool early to catch the 3:19 77 WeGo bus but no luck, no bus. Which means I have to wait more than an hour and have to cancel the shopping I planned.

. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social says on XTwitter that no one follows her on bsky. And that bsky is too nice whereas XTwitter reminds her of the good old days of boxing in Madison Square Garden. Challenge of the day: lure her over here. After all @dieworkwear.bsky.social takes the trouble to post here

Fewer choices in how we move ☹️

Four years away and the Super Bowl is already closing greenways with no notice or detours

Thank you @charlieweingartner.bsky.social for putting this recording together. This committee is doing some of the hardest and most important work in our city. These meetings need to be streamed.

This is bananas.

The Waymo and I, we're taking each other's picture at Blair and 21st Ave S.

The WeGo 7 I was waiting for hit a sign earlier and had to go out of service. So I waited 35 minutes.. and had a 30-min. conversation with Art, a wealthy combat vet and lawyer from NYC who had a stroke and is getting treatment at the VA here. He's shocked by certain southern things so I explained...

Anyone in Nashville spotted a spicebush for sale at any local nurseries? I’ve struck out at two so far.

Waiting for the WeGo 77, I spoke with Bob whose NYC accent I appreciated. It turns out that Bob was best friends with Billy who was killed by the semi truck at Gallatin & Trinity Ln. Both veterans of Desert Storm, they bonded. Billy, 55, was the 1st person Bob, 62, met when he came south.

Walking around Nashville West is not so easy except right in front of the stores.

Nashville shopping center geology and botanics. Never boring.

The bus going 45?mph didn't seem to know this bus stop existed. I stepped onto Charlotte Pike and waved vigorously like a person stranded on an island. Success!

Wild carrot or poison hemlock?

Choose how you move, how you die.

Lack of footpath from West Nashville WeGo 50 bus stop to shops. Bad design.

Nashville "bike lane" (Charlotte)

The song was playing in Miami Beach alot. I didn't know what it was, who, where from. A few days ago it's playing in a restau near me in Nashville while I walk by. A man walks out, I call to him: Excuse me, what's this song? He whips out his phone, fires up an app, shows me youtu.be/D-xTQ0fFXi4?...

Another email impersonating me, this time emailing an author I admire but don't know, praising their work, and asking to swap craft ideas. Seems to be AI generated. What is the goal of these? Unsure, but the effect is that you need to verify every bit of contact you have--or think you're having.

I'm trying to figure out which Spanish accent these two guys are speaking on the other side of the bus. Not Caribbean. Not Mexican. Maybe Colombian? Very clearly enunciated though fast.

I'm in the bus next to the guy headed to the boxing gym. Fascinating watching him surreptitiously lacing up his boxing boots. ... Done. Now he's wrapping his hands and wrists. Exquisite timing, he'll be done when we reach his stop.

Spied our little Nashville bike lane 'Broomer this morning!

The Near Miss Reporting Tool resolution requests a way to report dangerous hotspots and close calls before a serious injury or fatality. Using @hubnashville.bsky.social, the city can efficiently gather proactive safety data at a minimal cost to better prioritize future infrastructure improvements.

NES contractor trimmed the trees around the wires at 24th S & Blakemore, SW corner. But the lone streetlight is behind foliage still, ensuring a much used crosswalk between the Blair school and Dragon Park remains much too dark at night.

Oh! No! They don't. Here in Nashville, most transit bosses don't ride transit, bike lane designers don't ride bikes, crosswalk designers don't walk.

Spy the basil, spy the pumpkin.

The Waymos act as pace cars (not exceeding the speed limit) and they stop at every red light and every stop sign and they use turn signals. Indeed, a novelty in Nashville driving.

Ouch, a LOT of emergency vehicles. Blinking red and blue. Don't even try the southbound lane, people.

Some kind of wreck at Portland and 21st Ave S. I hope not too horrific, like last time. Seeing all the emergency vehicles from my window.

Breakfast casserole chez moi. Also, I'm plotting 4 Molière-themed sessions at the Richland Park library on 4 Saturdays in June 3:15-4:30PM. In French. We'll read scenes from a couple of his plays, in French, perhaps with music. Still figuring it out.

Update

Some trees make a comeback.

The North Nashville WeGo transit center has good signage. And wifi. Ooops. The 22 left without me. I was busy doing this. There's another one in 7 minutes, yay.

Metro Nashville's sights, hidden creeks, branch-dropping trees. And weeds.

It's never boring to visit various parts of our vast Nashville Metro and county.

Lethal crosswalk at Gallatin and Trinity. Note the road bump and the faded barely visible paint. Thanks for the LPI, @kemcdonell.bsky.social. I'd be dead from nonstop speeding left-turning cars otherwise.

I may have been the first and the last to drop off hazmat and broken electronics at East Convenience recycling Center on foot. I won't ask for a sidewalk. There's a good sidewalk on Trinity.

The WeGo 71 is pretty good at announcing the stops before the stops.

#MetroCouncilNash on Thursday this week due to election day 🗳️ being today, Tuesday 5/5.

How large is the alleged shrinkage of the promised Oracle campus?

With the number of Nashville tourists walking across the interstate ramp at 14th and Broadway, maybe something something?

🚨🇺🇸🗳️ Y’all, just 22,078 ppl or 4.7% of the ~478K registered voters in #Nashville voted early. ☎️📱Time to text your friends this polling place finder link: bit.ly/2Suyyfs & remind them to vote! 🗓️📌If you/they/anyone did not vote early, make a plan for Tues, May 5. Polls are open 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.

Someone tell Hilton Als & the @newyorker that Duchamp was from Normandy and gave what are known as "réponses de Normand" as documented long ago in Astérix.

Make it all concrete-protected and I will accept

Tree not done dropping chunks.

4 women just drove by me at the Woodmont & Hillsboro bus stop northbound. None was looking at the road, each had her eyes on something inside the car.

Sooo, today I biked down Music Row all the way to Shelby park via the @kemcdonell.bsky.social bikeway. I propose we name it after her! Incredible smooth route. I appreciated too the friendly liveliness of downtown Nash' on a Saturday AM. This one, the atmosphere, gets to be named after Bill Purcell.