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^"The Nam" seems like an inauspicious name for a restaurant.

That whole section of DT is like that. If there were a lot of street traffic little kiosks would work for selling things like crepes and tacos, but it's hard to imagine anything that size that would serve to lure new people to the area which seems pretty barren a lot of the time. I'm not downtown during weekdays so maybe it's different then.

Is there any way to knock some holes in the exterior walls for some street activation? It's such a hostile fortress at the street level. And the balcony in Jackson hall is a nightmare, climbing over people to reach your seat. I almost fell on someone last time.

I'm fine with Wego and I think the purple buses are lively and eye-catching. It would be harder to see a black and gold bus coming. It's good to see a bus from far away, it makes the wait seem shorter and people get their passes and money ready.

I've driven well over a million miles in my life, unfortunately, and it never fails to amaze me that there are people who don't find driving incredibly boring, tedious and aggravating, but then I know people who like to wash dishes, mow lawns, and all kinds of other boring stupid chores. To each his own, as long as you're not poisoning my air or wrecking my climate.

I love that red terracotta ornamentation. There's not a lot of it around, it seems to be a product of a certain time frame, but I wish it would come back. I like it much better than the white glazed terracotta that you see in Chicago.

Our population continues to become more urban and our cities aren't really that far apart within their regions (People on this board like to talk about how 50% of the US population is within 600 miles of Nashville), we just have a big empty space in the plains and mountains (although really, trains built the West back in the day). It would take a lot of improvement to make train travel suitable between the coasts, other than for recreation, but Amtrak currently has five profitable lines and three of them are in California, so it's not just the northeast. Per Wikipedia, high speed rail beats air travel, (including getting to and from the airport and going thru security) on trips under 430 miles, which would get us to Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Atlanta, St Louis, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Columbus OH and probably more I'm not thinking of, and it is very competitive for places it can reach in under 4 1/2 hours, which would get you from here to Chicago, New Orleans, Cleveland and other places. It beats car travel anywhere. The cities in the Great Lakes area aren't very far apart either, Milwaukee-Chicago-Gary-Detroit-Erie-Toledo-Buffalo. Of course the biggest problem is the difficulty of getting infrastructure funding, eminent domain, years long environmental review processes and fighting off brain-eating NIMBY hordes, and the political influence of the Airlines (Amtrak ate their lunch with the Acela causing Southwest to cancel their service between DC and NYC and they are not fans) not to mention getting each state on board during these fractious times, but as a practical rather than a political matter, it's completely feasible.

I blame the GI Generation. Glad they beat the Nazis, but there was an attitude post WWII that the old world was swept away, you can see it in the architecture which is totally divorced from all prior tradition, and they bought into the idea that cars and planes were the only forms of transport that we needed. There were crazy proposals to knock down Paris and replace it with high rises and expressways, fill in the canals in Amsterdam with concrete so cars could drive on them, etc. except we actually did it, subsidizing sprawl and knocking down old neighborhoods. They thought passenger rail was dead and freight rail was a dying technology so they just gave the tracks to the freight companies. Now train technology has advanced so far that a huge and growing percentage of freight is carried on miles-long trains, and if we had kept the tracks, we could be riding here to Memphis in under an hour. (Italians are commuting to jobs in Milan from as far as Rome). Automobiles have reached their limit with three-hour commutes and are becoming a burdensome legacy. Dumb choices and one that increased personal debt massively as well. Good work on those Nazis, though. The answer isn't to get rid of cars and put all our eggs in a different basket, of course. But some balance and variety of choices would be nice.

My biggest hope is that under the influence of Amazon, our bus system will become more like Seattle's . Seattle has figured out that people will ride buses in droves if the service is frequent and convenient enough.

I went to one of those meetings, there were 100's of people. This went on for months, and opponents were still saying this came out of nowhere with no public input. Monday morning quarterbacking is easy, the fact is right now any transit proposal that catches the attention of certain factions will be shot down with any tactics necessary. We of course need to build up bus service first, but under the rejected plan light rail wouldn't begin until a decade out. To the average person it meant, they're going to spend billions of dollars tomorrow and build a system appropriate to a much larger city." We will be that larger city sooner than you think. I sincerely believe most people have no concept of time (this is one reason most people are broke). I once gave someone a young pine tree I found in my yard and a couple of years later he told me he'd had to cut it down because he'd planted it a foot from his house and it was now huge. I said, "Why did you plant it so close, you know what a pine tree is, right?" and he said "Yeah, but I didn't know it would grow that fast." In his mind its size say, ten years from now was no concern because ten years from now is not real. I've heard people (not temporary residents) say "We were going to plant an apple tree (or walnut or whatever) but then we found out you don't get apples for 3 years." How soon will they get apples from not planting the tree? The ultimate scope of the transit plan should not be revealed to the average idiot.

Well I guess you weren't paying attention, but the reason we went big is that when we went small that went down in flames, thanks to the Koch brothers and Lee Beaman. Fortunately Beaman has crawled back under his rock and is presumably back to bullying women and videotaping himself with prostitutes instead of telling Nashville how to please him, but we still have a state legislature intent on overriding the vast majority of Nashville voters so I doubt Nashville can do anything so daring as to actually build a bus lane without paternalistic interference from those who know so much better than us how to manage our city.

This is just the same as the AMP. Like the AMP proposal it has dedicated lanes and signal priority, which is apparently far beyond what is possible for Nashville.

Only landscaping can save a building like that. They need to get some ivy groving up those walls as soon as possible.

In Oregon you can get a text automatically when your ballot is counted. The thing about fraud, is with individual paper ballots it would have to be done on a massive scale to make any difference. Electronically, the possibility for fraud is very real, especially since our elections are managed by partisan officeholders (the secretary of state of each state,) In a couple of states this year, the secretary of state is running for governor, a ridiculous conflict of interest that can only inspire distrust. The British also have an excellent paper ballot system where the ballots are kept at the polling station in sight of everyone in the center of the room, and when the polls close, the pollwatchers (one from each party is always present) sit at a table and count the ballots together. They always know the outcome of every election within a couple of hours.

We're used to seeing fancy features used in wealthy places like NYC and Paris in our renders and then getting cost engineered into a short box, but this...this looks like it might really happen. I feel like it takes us to a new level.

All true, but my sense is that those factors seem to come together in NYC in the worst way. San Francisco for example has a pretty great transit system, and they've had to spend billions on BART doing things like replacing all the 50 year old electronics the system was designed around (no replacement parts available anymore), and replacing all the old cars which are now holding twice the number of peak time riders as they were designed for, and they just do it and don't make a fuss about it, all while building the extension to San Jose which has to cost a pretty penny as well. And they're talking about building a second tunnel across the bay--the current one carries twice as many people at rush hour as the Oakland Bay Bridge.

You're so wrong. Needs more/bigger plants.

Don't you mean welcome to the center of international capitalism? There are over 400,000 people in NYC with incomes over $1,000,000 per year. And about 1/2 the population lives at or near the poverty line. It's where we're all headed. A big part of the subway's problem is that the city doesn't control it, it is entirely under control of the state government which doesn't care and only sees NYC as a source of revenue.

I really like that parking structure and enjoy driving under it so I'm glad they're keeping it. This area could have a nice gritty feel when all is done, although the 3rd render above looks like a strip mall. Parts of Germantown are so sanitized now I'm starting to hate it.

Bredesen did it. Not sure the exact dates.

This resistance to closing lanes is especially strange when you consider Lower Broad's not a road that connects anything to anything as it dead ends on 1st. Too bad there's no way to direct the traffic to Commerce which will always be too wide for a downtown street. Commerce should never have been widened, it has been dead since despite being between Broadway and Church, two incredibly active streets.

The worst is, when you come in on 8th that ugly backside blocks what was once a lovely view of downtown.

This may be my favorite building in Nashville.

Overnight, scooters bring a dose of reality to thinking on urban transportation. Now build some protected bike lanes! As for autonomous vehicles, which have enjoyed years of hype as the next big thing, Ramsey labeled them sliding into “the trough of disillusionment,” which Ramsey described as “when expectations don’t meet the truth.” While companies are still investing in the technology necessary for cars to drive on their own, a growing understanding has emerged that cities full of robot cars remain years away. Now, the technorati are looking to scooters and bike share companies as the way to change municipal transportation and reshape cities through “micro-mobility.”