GregH

Those Commerce lanes are wild, I totally get the confusion. I had to double take to know where to drive the first time I went through there too.

I've had a car rub into those flex posts right next to me while I was biking in a bike lane and it sure doesn't feel safer in that moment!

I want to scream from the rooftops that we already have sufficient public right of way for transit virtually everywhere we would want it and all of the billions of dollars in engineering tunnels or elevated or whatever is only in the service of not taking away space from private auto traffic or often, even worse, parking.

Maybe just their founder moved to Tennessee and wants somewhere cool to work out of "Michael Persall is a Founder and Chairman of ABP Capital, C3 Capital, and affiliate companies. Michael is also Chairman of the Board of Directors for C3bank. In addition, he is President of the 482-home Master Plan Development, Hideaway at Arrington, located south of Nashville, Tennessee in Williamson County"

The Titans practice facility is "St. Thomas Sports Park" so they're unlikely to be engaging with any other hospital.

Now that you mention it, I think there was some sort of historic PT boat or landing craft or something tied up next to Nissan Stadium for a short while a couple years ago but I can't rustle up any news mention of it.

So that would be 3 Publix (Publixes? Publixii?) in a 7-mile stretch of Charlotte, plus one over on Harding. Wild.

I don't know how you could, the census is a huge operation and already hard enough to get right (obviously). By the time you got through the funding wrangling, politics, and lawsuits, it would be time to start ramping up for 2030 anyway.

Cool I was wondering if that was still in the works

I’ve said it a bunch of times and people (who are wrong) disagree with me but BNA-Downtown would be an expensive waste. At least until we already have an existing network to tie it into. It would be useless for the huge majority of Nashville taxpayers (a small % of Nashvillians fly regularly and a small % of those flyers have any interest of starting and ending their trip downtown). And many out of towners would not find it useful either (think about where many of the airbnbs are that we like to complain about). If a normal commuter route in direction of the airport makes sense on its own merits maybe it would be worth connecting to the airport, but don’t spend a billion bucks so that some small fraction of rich people that don’t live here can get downtown somewhat cheaper.

The Camp concept was always intended to just run out the last two years of the lease but yeah I don’t know if that was ever made publicly explicit.

I would argue that unless you work from home or have a parking spot right next to your desk, "pedestrian" is actually the MOST-massive of transits and most people are pedestrians for at least part of their commute, though the % will vary. edit: I guess I'm overstating that. But still, if you have to cross a street or walk on a sidewalk to get from your car to your building, you share concerns with the pedestrian mode.

My current missing middle obsession is that we end up with stuff like this in central locations (this is edgehill), a 2 for 1 with 2x3000 square foot $1m+ SFHs, yet parking minimums and other zoning prevent this lot from being 4 or even 6 spacious apartments or condos with more or less the same amount of built space. This feels like low-hanging fruit for housing affordability. edit: these are more like 3500 sq ft including garage space I think.

This is my recollection as well except I think it was only flights to Philly.

Wow, New Haven is the smallest airport I have ever flown through, surprised to see them get some many destinations. Pretty sure when I was there a few years ago there were only about 5 staff in the whole place including 2-3 TSA.

Those look ok, IMO, are they going to be STR?

Ramp metering has seemed cool in the places I have seen it but I wonder how Middle TN drivers will abide by it. I predict a high % just ignoring it.

Not in this area but https://www.eaglerockventures.com/rutledge-flats

I'm sorry, Livano, but the train tracks (or 44th at the farthest) are the border of the Nations. You can be "Livano Tomorrows Hope" or "Livano TSU". A society has to have rules.

Would that even be worth doing? I'd imagine most "important" users of census data aren't going to look or in some cases even be allowed to look at data from a local one-off.

Yeah I bet it is that, the west park tank construction looked similar (all the scaffolding got blown over twice) and looks like there is a permit over there issued last summer for building a 6 million gallon tank.

Agreed that talking about a comprehensive plan would be much better. Every little encroachment on existing "car space" has an obvious downside to someone that they can point to and complain about, but the value of bike/ped/transit infrastructure is largely in the completeness of the network: many people aren't going to take a bike trip where only half the route feels safe and comfortable, people won't give up their car when the buses have terrible headways and only go downtown. If you have an overall plan you can at least show people what the eventual value will be for them, even if they don't live in 12south or whatever. I also think it's important signaling for people in how they should plan and invest for the future. It is my belief that, because personal car travel mostly doesn't scale well, it has declining value as a primary mode of travel in a growing region. I don't think traffic will every be better than it is now and I think it will get progressively worse, no matter what infrastructure is built. So, if you're planning on living in the suburbs and commuting downtown, you should expect your car commute to get slower and more expensive every year. I don't think people think about that now, but even if they do it's not like they really have options or information to make a different decision. If the city was working towards a plan, people could at least consider, for example, paying a bit more to buy in an area that will have transit options in the future, or investors could know which major corridors will be served by transit and would be good places to invest in building denser housing.

The Gulch and 12South ends are already not too bad on a bike because the narrower road and high pedestrian traffic slows car traffic a great deal.

At some point we are going to collectively need to agree on what to call that strip between Charlotte and I-40. IMO we should go with "Nations/Sylvan DMZ"

Is that being built with no parking? Cool if so.