NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As work continues along Nashville’s East Bank, some think not every option for the main roadway through the development is getting a fair chance.
In 2022, Metro released the “Imagine East Bank Vision Plan,” which includes three alternatives for East Bank Boulevard — the main road through the project. A six-lane concept includes two lanes for cars in either direction and one bus lane in either direction with protected bike lanes, and there are two four-lane options included within the plan.
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At a Tuesday Vision Zero Advisory Committee, Katherine McDonnell — who chairs the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission — spoke up and said that she thinks leaders have favored the six-lane alternative over the four-lane options. McDonnell added that she previously served on the Vision Zero Advisory Committee, which studied “high-injury networks” across Nashville, and finds the six-lane design too wide to align with Vision Zero’s mission of reducing injuries and fatalities along Music City’s roads.
“Why we’re proposing to build a brand-new piece of our high-injury network in a brand-new neighborhood where we can build anything?” McDonnell said. “[It] really contradicts all the efforts that have been made until this point to go in the opposite direction in trying to reduce people from dying on our roadways.”
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“This should not even be a finalized design at this point,” McDonnell said. “There are three options on the table and I think what we want is a fair conversation around those three options.”…