Reposted by Katherine McDonellRobin @jesusurbanist.bsky.social · 4hWhen it comes to ped, bike, and transit safety, we cannot do anything beyond what MUTCD says. When it comes VIP parking, we can do whatever the hell we want. 0141
Reposted by Katherine McDonellCharlie Weingartner @charlieweingartner.bsky.social · 19hOnce upon a time I attended a greenways ribbon cutting and saw numerous cars parked in a bike lane. When I asked folks about it, they said that Parks told them to park there. MNPD were present, so was @mayor.nashville.gov. This is 101 shit that we have to fix and we’re not serious until it is. 0152
Reposted by Katherine McDonellEast Nashville Urban Design @urbaneastnash.bsky.social · 9hWhat subsection of the MUTCD is this one found? 1303
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 22hRiding bikes in Shelby Bottoms at sunset might be the best thing about this city 2371
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 23hstatic.klipy.comSquidward Meme: Missing Out While Looking Out WindowAlt: Squidward Meme: Missing Out While Looking Out Window 090
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Truly did not know how badly we were getting our asses kicked by Atlanta 181
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026static.klipy.comSquidward Meme: Missing Out While Looking Out WindowAlt: Squidward Meme: Missing Out While Looking Out Window 2193
Reposted by Katherine McDonellSpencer Sharpe @jspencersharpe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Bench build tomorrow has been postponed. See y’all in November! 092
Reposted by Katherine McDonellChris Bowe @cbowe34.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🚨 URGENT BULLETIN TO ALL NASHVILLE SICKOS 🚨 If you see a painted bike box at any intersection, that intersection needs to have a No Right on Red sign to prevent cars from pulling through the bike box. If there is not a NROR sign, Hub it and Metro will fix it quickly! 2199
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This whole discussion was demoralizing and infuriating. Grateful to @sandrafornash.bsky.social and everyone who stood up for safer streets. If we can't even implement basic, proven safety measures without months of baseless, bad faith debate, how are we ever going to accomplish anything real? 1131
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have some I'm not currently using if you want to borrow them! It looks like they're about 13 inches tall. 210
Reposted by Katherine McDonellmanaen @themanaen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Saw another article in local media today that said a VEHICLE struck my friend Kim, so here's a quick thread of studies, style guides, and articles about how the reporting on road violence, fatalities, and safety is essential and how journalists must use the appropriate language to get it right. 1133
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Video here: www.youtube.com/live/wNHXllw... Everyone needs to watch this.youtube.com10/06/26 Metropolitan Council MeetingYouTube video by Metro Nashville Network 020
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you're wondering where we are in Nashville, we're at the point where an incredible advocate who has been hit and severely injured by a car driver is showing up to council *in her wheelchair* to demand change. That's where we are right now. 3378
Reposted by Katherine McDonellThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Pick up something from our recommended reading list, books by podcast guests, and check out our list of books for kids all the while supporting independent booksellers. Plus, free shipping! bookshop.org/shop/thewaro...bookshop.orgThe War on Cars BookshopThe War on Cars presents a list of books by authors featured on the podcast, host favoritesand other titles related to the show. Plus, books for kids! Check out our book, "Life After Cars: Freeing Our... 04010
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've been dealing with this for 10 years. Everyone who navigates Nashville outside of a car deals with all of this and much worse on a daily basis. But if we're going to keep going, we need some assurance that it's not going to be like this forever. 1140
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/20264. One vehicle parked in the bike lane and two more in the adjacent and unnecessary right turn lane, a dangerous spot we have reported countless times. The last driver tried to pull out straight across the bike lane and nearly hit me. 140
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/20263. Two Downtown Partnership trucks and an SUV parked in the (still unprotected, barely painted at this point) Demonbreun bicycle lane 141
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/20262. Two landscaping trucks parked on a greenway that was going to be one of our only Connect Downtown bikeways 140
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/20261. A Sysco truck and a FedEx truck completely blocking our new raised crosswalk on 4th 140
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Here are a few highlights from a 5 minute ride through downtown this morning. None of this is unusual, but it is exhausting. I can handle all of this shit when there's some hope of it getting better. But if we lose that hope, I'm not really sure what we're left with. 1152
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Here's MNPD describing the process at VZAC. The bar for mandated reporting is very high. For all other crashes, you have to wait hours at the scene for an officer to respond, who then may refuse to take a report (ask me how I know). Crashes reported online do not count. youtu.be/8w2WTJWRs1U?...youtu.beVision Zero Advisory Committee Meeting - August 11, 2026YouTube video by Nashville Vision Zero Meetings 040
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Because only the most severe crashes end up getting counted, this approach requires more people to be seriously injured or killed before we can make basic, proven safety improvements. Appreciated @quinevanssegall.bsky.social pointing this out in committee yesterday. 160
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The other problem with this approach is that it is extremely difficult to report crashes, so any data we're basing this on will be a significant underestimate. The vast majority go unreported, and many that are go into a secret database that is not used by NDOT or MNPD when analyzing crash data. 1101
Reposted by Katherine McDonellNeil Kornutick @neilkornutick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you’re only willing to make improvements to places that have had crashes, you do not believe in vision zero, you believe in vision not another but if it happens again, we can look at that too. The main point is to prevent serious injuries and deaths. 2277
Reposted by Katherine McDonellAngie E. Henderson @angienashville.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Kudos to @sandrafornash.bsky.social & @seanforfive.com. This award remains my most treasured from #MetroCouncilNash service. Creating truly #SafeStreets for all in #Nashville via policy pathways has been particularly challenging in the last decade. Special thanks to everyone for their tenacity! 0113
Reposted by Katherine McDonellEast Nashville Urban Design @urbaneastnash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s October and we are raising funds for the Napier Community Fall Festival. This will be our 4th year raising $ to buy pumpkins for the kids. gofund.me/9e85747b7gofund.meDonate to Support the 2026 Napier Community Fall Festival, organized by DJ SullivanJoin us in our 4th year of raising funds to support the Fall Festival in… DJ Sullivan needs your support for Support the 2026 Napier Community Fall Festival 074
Reposted by Katherine McDonellSara Meissner @meiss5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Heads up cargo bike peeps 073
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This truck has been parking *in a disabled space* without a placard, blocking the sidewalk with its massive hood and forcing anyone walking through here into oncoming traffic that they can't see. I'm now on my 3rd request trying to get NDOT to even recognize that this is illegal. 1130
Reposted by Katherine McDonellM🎃xie 🎃n Wheels @moxieonwheels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026ooh, are we sharing NDOTs non-responses?! 191
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Love to see it. GNRC taking on the choice lanes with data. fox17.com/news/local/c...fox17.comCould Nashville improve downtown traffic without adding more interstate lanes?As Middle Tennessee continues to grow, transportation planners are asking a big question about one of Nashville’s biggest traffic trouble spots. 0102
Reposted by Katherine McDonellCharlie Weingartner @charlieweingartner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Restricting Right Turn on Red movements is a direct application of the Safe System approach at the heart of Vision Zero. It has been recommended repeatedly in Nashville's own planning work, including the 2022 Vision Zero Action Plan and 2024 Connect Downtown Action Plan. 192
Reposted by Katherine McDonellCharlie Weingartner @charlieweingartner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I thank Metro Council for their recommitment to Vision Zero via @jkupin4d19.bsky.social's resolution that the council adopted in July. They now have a concrete chance to continue that commitment: supporting on Councilwoman @sandrafornash.bsky.social RTOR restriction at 59 intersections. 182
Reposted by Katherine McDonellCharlie Weingartner @charlieweingartner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We have now lost the lives of 87 people this year due to traffic violence. 28 pedestrians, 2 bicyclists, 15 motorcyclists, and 42 people in vehicles. Last month alone, 31 other pedestrians and 7 cyclists were struck by vehicles on our roadways. 173
Reposted by Katherine McDonellCharlie Weingartner @charlieweingartner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nashville had 15 fatal crashes last month. We lost Michael Magee, Joseph Ballentine, Andre Adams, Gjuanna Southerland, Robert Gerald, Julio Cesar Ramirez-Rondon, German Mengual, Savannah Stair, Emily Dollarhide, Juan Resendiz, Austin Franklin, Madisson A. De La Paz Garcia, and three other people. 1134
Reposted by Katherine McDonellWalk Bike Nashville @walkbikenashville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Want to connect with other Walk Bike Nashville members this month? Join us at East Park Community Center (600 Woodland St.) Thursday, October 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for a Member Gathering. 151
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Goodness, glad you're ok. Has it been worse lately? It feels like it's been worse lately. 120
Reposted by Katherine McDonellWalk Bike Nashville @walkbikenashville.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We loved celebrating this year’s Streets for People Award winners! These people and organizations supported our mission to build great streets and a strong culture of walking and biking in Nashville this year. Read about the winners: walkbikenashville.org/blog-member-party-awards-recap-2026 0151
Reposted by Katherine McDonellRobin @jesusurbanist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm going without driving for the next week. It's a good way to learn about your community, and even more importantly, an important spiritual practice and way to love your neighbor. 1/3 of Americans are nondrivers, but we don't build for them.jesusurbanist.substack.comA Week Without Driving is a Spiritual PracticeOpting out of driving for a week can make us more faithful and more loving neighbors. 0121
Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just a reminder how awesome the cargo bike party was last year 1111
