sometimes the pool noodle on a kickstand feels silly, but then I see drivers and I'm glad @sundance.bikesky.social gave me the idea

Ebikes are accessible to huge sections of the population that don't have the option to ride a standard bike. This is a horrific precedent for a state to set.

I have attempted a tierlist of common styles of bike racks. (Just install staple racks!)

Below market rate parking, but you have to sit through five minutes of getting roasted by a teenager who makes you feel bad about driving your car.

Minivan

VZAC Vision Zero Action Committee Meeting Today (Tuesday) Sonny West Conference Center at the Howard Office Building at 5:00 pm 700 2nd Ave S., 37210 Public comment is at the beginning of the meeting at 5pm.

The evidence is everywhere for hardening our active infrastructure.

Cyclist Now Comes to Complete Stop at Every Stop Sign, Unsure Why Drivers Still Hate Him - Just Wants To Be Liked. Creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

Is NDOT putting up more of these blame-the-pedestrian LOOK signs? I saw this one at Rosa Parks and Church, moments before two different drivers turned in front of two people crossing on the leading pedestrian indicator. (This is where Hume-Fogg student Elena Zamora was killed in 2013.)

My New Year’s resolutions are the same every year: read more books, ride my bike more. If I do these things, everything else improves: fitness, mental health, energy levels, not being so murdery, appetite, sleep, the need to scream in your face. Books and bikes, they make life better.

Happy new year, bicycle friends ❤️🚲

The BPAC Annual Report is here! Highlights: - Nashville built 5.9 miles of sidewalk, 2.6 miles of bikeway, and 1.1 miles of greenway in 2025 - 0 miles of concrete-protected bikeways were built this year, and 0.15 miles of bikeway were removed Recommendations: build more sidewalks and bikeways.

End of year support request - help Bike Fun roll confidently into 2026 mailchi.mp/nashvillebik...

Support Bike Fun year round by enrolling in Kroger Community Rewards & selecting us as your partner! www.nashvillebikefun.org/kroger for more info on how

New ranking system @neilkornutick.bsky.social

THIS

Do you work downtown? Don’t forget to take the NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP downtown employee survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/SZHQZFG

Woot!

Join us tomorrow for the holiday lights ride! Tentatively bringing hot chocolate to share & DEFINITELY bringing cookies RSVP here events.humanitix.com/holiday-ligh... or just show up!

Another way to look at it: for every $1 a bike causes, an SUV causes *$55k* worth of damage to a road

[mounts well-worn soapbox] The fanciest predictive ped safety analysis would fall short of just taking a dang inventory of the crossings at every bus stop pair systemwide. There’s not a single big correlate to ped fatalities that isn’t addressed by focusing on/around bus stop pairs.

Today in the Gulch - stop in for a hello & a warm beverage.

Contribute to our holiday FUN-drive & join us on Sun 12/14 at Rivian for a party! Gently used lights or bells are great - new helmets preferred. See nashvillebikefun.org/event/holida... for more info

Ban right on red.

took the lane on gallatin running yesterday in front of the new whataburger. disgusting that we allow developers to destroy the sidewalk without fixing it the next day or something. in montreal if this was the case, they'd mark off the right lane as a sidewalk until the sidewalk is open again.

East Nashville Cyclists — go ride Greenfield Ave this week! NDOTs LiDAR trailer will be out this week and we should show our numbers!

Couching those sit down scooterbikes in accessibility framing changes the dialogue ^kj cc @benvaught.bsky.social @careyrogers.bsky.social @kemcdonell.bsky.social

When you contribute to Bike Fun for Giving Tuesday, you 🚲 Help create more confident riders 🚲 Help refurbish used bikes & get them to new riders 🚲 Help continue to host the free Nashville Bicycle Festival Visit nashvillebikefun.org & click on SUPPORT OUR GIVING TUESDAY CAMPAIGN.

We’re working on orders today. You have until December 16th at 5pm Central to make sure your orders get to you before the holidays. www.bikelaneuprising.com/shop

The assumption that people only use transit to get to and from work in downtowns has been detrimental to transit ridership.

Step 1 in the radicalization of a safe streets advocate: Heretofore regular person: I just want a stop sign [or marked crosswalk or speed humps or some other small thing] in this dangerous spot. DOT: No, that would cause vehicle delay, which is a safety hazard.

Traffic deaths are policy choices.

Athena Macke - Berlin-University of Applied Sciences. In her final thesis, she focused on fashionable and performative forms of expression in forward-looking urban design and the move away from cars. The cycle path and the car dress as well as the frustration boxer were also part of her project.

It's no accident we see "carrots", such as nudges or behaviour change programmes, overrepresented in policy tools used to effect modal change. We need a “new normal” with regard to mobility, which sees sustainable travel as default not an alternative and which actively disrupts current patterns.

Today!

Bench building party today!

Re-upping for any Nashville bike people... you can get a CT gift card 😀 (I'm not affiliated but I really love to see more of these events!)

Check out this awesome rear bike light mod! Vistatrekker on Instagram is a bus driver who documents his cycle commuting in Ireland. He uses a camera tripod pole and has attached two lights at the ends for improved range estimation for drivers. I might make it bendy but I really like this!

Can confirm this happens in Nashville ALL THE TIME

BTW, a 2021 Carnie Mellon study found that ridehail's arrival in a new city *increases* car ownership. The reason: Few residents ditch their car, while some become ridehail drivers and buy vehicles. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Join Nashville Connector & Bike Fun at Cumberland Transit Sat 11/15 for a Winter Riding clinic! 9:30AM, 2807 West End Ave. Attendees will get a gift card to CT! Registration, more info www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-bik...

We could use a couple more hands at our RESCHEDULED All Ages Learn to Ride w/ @walkbikenashville.bsky.social this Sun 11/9 at Antioch Middle School! Can stay the whole time or split up a shift. It will be COLDER & WINDY so your support is appreciated! nashvillebikefun.org/volunteer

Even kids understand!

TDOT has reopened their NEPA public comment period for the I-24 Choice Lanes project which will impact our neighborhood. NEPA is a procedural law that guides agency decision making. It can be confusing! I’ll be helping demystify the process for our neighbors. Join us!

tired: leaders throw folks under the bus wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane

once again posting The Chart

New app update released yesterday

While thinking about our statement on this, I tried out the PHB on Demonbreun Hill. Here's what I found: 1. There's a 45-second delay before it even acknowledges your existence. After that you get about 30 seconds to cross. 2. Two drivers ran straight through the solid red lights.

besides, imagine if you were run off the road while riding home from the store & the city commemorated the site by installing a sign reading 🚲 remember to always wear a helmet 🙂