Tyson Gach
@tysongach.com
Product designer & developer, and accessibility advocate. Probably craving pie. Nashville, TN.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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We cut down a tree and put up these things. What’s next, the little crossing flags?
8 of these cartoonish, victim-blaming signs have been installed at a Greenway crossing since Dot Dobbins was killed there by a driver on June 8, 2025.
September 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We cut down a tree and put up these things. What’s next, the little crossing flags?
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Airport authority claims it was "unprecedented" that a lot of people visited Nashville on Monday, causing traffic mayhem. The same "unprecedented" phenomenon that happens around the holidays and major events several times a year?
Build the damn train already.
nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/air...
Build the damn train already.
nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/air...
Airport Mayhem, National Guard Nearby, and Advice for Staying Sane - City Cast Nashville
The Nashville International Airport experienced an “unprecedented surge” on Monday evening that left some travelers in gridlock for hours. Radley B...
nashville.citycast.fm
September 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Airport authority claims it was "unprecedented" that a lot of people visited Nashville on Monday, causing traffic mayhem. The same "unprecedented" phenomenon that happens around the holidays and major events several times a year?
Build the damn train already.
nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/air...
Build the damn train already.
nashville.citycast.fm/podcasts/air...
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Even as the corridor becomes more developed, community members and advocates say Dickerson Pike still feels more like an old highway than a modern urban thoroughfare. Read our latest ZIP code dispatch from 37207
Dangerous Dickerson Pike: A Nashville safety concern - Nashville Banner
Pedestrians walking along and crossing Dickerson Pike in Nashville face significant safety issues. For a number of reasons, there are no quick fixes.
nashvillebanner.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Even as the corridor becomes more developed, community members and advocates say Dickerson Pike still feels more like an old highway than a modern urban thoroughfare. Read our latest ZIP code dispatch from 37207
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✈️ #Nashville has a great airport except for its dearth of transit options. If TDOT & Airport Authority can move heaven/earth/$$ for expedited road widenings, toll lanes & Tesla tunnels, we can surely make express buses happen! #BetterBusForBNA #TeamWorkMakesTheDreamWork
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
✈️ #Nashville has a great airport except for its dearth of transit options. If TDOT & Airport Authority can move heaven/earth/$$ for expedited road widenings, toll lanes & Tesla tunnels, we can surely make express buses happen! #BetterBusForBNA #TeamWorkMakesTheDreamWork
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Some creative traffic calming in PNW. Things Nashville could do if we had vision!
September 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Some creative traffic calming in PNW. Things Nashville could do if we had vision!
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This is pretty cool but have you considered building a one lane tunnel for only a certain brand of automobiles
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
September 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is pretty cool but have you considered building a one lane tunnel for only a certain brand of automobiles
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Flashing lights and tiny yield signs do not save lives. We just have to make drivers slow down and stop. Speed cushions and stop signs could have been installed months ago.
Why are we still valuing traffic throughput over people's lives?
Why are we still valuing traffic throughput over people's lives?
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Flashing lights and tiny yield signs do not save lives. We just have to make drivers slow down and stop. Speed cushions and stop signs could have been installed months ago.
Why are we still valuing traffic throughput over people's lives?
Why are we still valuing traffic throughput over people's lives?
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Shortly after Dot Dobbins was killed crossing 3rd Ave, a traffic signal was installed at Van Buren and 3rd. The Vision Zero committee expressed concerns when this was presented during the fatal crash review in July, but it was installed anyway.
Since, another pedestrian has been hit here
1/
Since, another pedestrian has been hit here
1/
August 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Shortly after Dot Dobbins was killed crossing 3rd Ave, a traffic signal was installed at Van Buren and 3rd. The Vision Zero committee expressed concerns when this was presented during the fatal crash review in July, but it was installed anyway.
Since, another pedestrian has been hit here
1/
Since, another pedestrian has been hit here
1/
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remarkable how quickly @nashvilledot.bsky.social can act to make our streets more dangerous and hostile, but then they just have a huge list of excuses when it comes to making our streets safer and more inviting places
August 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
remarkable how quickly @nashvilledot.bsky.social can act to make our streets more dangerous and hostile, but then they just have a huge list of excuses when it comes to making our streets safer and more inviting places
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Great advocacy here from Meredith Montgomery of @walkbikenashville.bsky.social and Veronica Foster from @civicdesigncenter.bsky.social.
Sounds like it's time for @freddieoconnell.bsky.social to take a position.
Sounds like it's time for @freddieoconnell.bsky.social to take a position.
![“We are stuck in this 100-year culture of car-centric. And we have this blank slate of East Bank to build the road however we want to build it,” said Meredith Montgomery, executive director of Walk Bike Nashville and one of the event attendees. “At a time when we are actively retrofitting roads in our city to make them narrower, safer, better for pedestrians, more multimodal — it seems like the current [East Bank Boulevard] plan that’s out there is just building a new version of what we keep trying to fix.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4hgdjffqxgk3qyzss27rhhl7/bafkreibxeyiy6ccflezy6hwcvw57f37azxqa3c46wawh3so56cwzl3q2ki@jpeg)
August 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Great advocacy here from Meredith Montgomery of @walkbikenashville.bsky.social and Veronica Foster from @civicdesigncenter.bsky.social.
Sounds like it's time for @freddieoconnell.bsky.social to take a position.
Sounds like it's time for @freddieoconnell.bsky.social to take a position.
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East Bank Boulevard — the street to serve as the major corridor in Nashville’s East Bank neighborhood — is causing debate.
Metro put forth a six-lane proposal, but pushback suggests the city could choose a safer and more creative design.
wpln.org/post/what-ki...
Metro put forth a six-lane proposal, but pushback suggests the city could choose a safer and more creative design.
wpln.org/post/what-ki...
What kind of street will anchor Nashville’s East Bank? Advocates push for changes to Metro's vision
East Bank Boulevard — the street that will one day serve as a major corridor in Nashville’s future East Bank neighborhood — is causing debate. Metro has put forth a six-lane proposal, which pedestrian...
wpln.org
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
East Bank Boulevard — the street to serve as the major corridor in Nashville’s East Bank neighborhood — is causing debate.
Metro put forth a six-lane proposal, but pushback suggests the city could choose a safer and more creative design.
wpln.org/post/what-ki...
Metro put forth a six-lane proposal, but pushback suggests the city could choose a safer and more creative design.
wpln.org/post/what-ki...
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Legalize it.
Legalizing corner stores in more neighborhoods would allow more people to buy groceries without needing to drive.
May we all one day be so privileged as to consider our grocery store maybe being a little more crowded a crisis meriting a call for divine aid
August 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Legalize it.
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WeGo now supports easy payments.
That means you just pull out your debit or credit card or use a phone payment thing when you board.
No account, no forms, no apps.
Best part: fare capping in full effect
That means you just pull out your debit or credit card or use a phone payment thing when you board.
No account, no forms, no apps.
Best part: fare capping in full effect
July 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
WeGo now supports easy payments.
That means you just pull out your debit or credit card or use a phone payment thing when you board.
No account, no forms, no apps.
Best part: fare capping in full effect
That means you just pull out your debit or credit card or use a phone payment thing when you board.
No account, no forms, no apps.
Best part: fare capping in full effect
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it’s official!
open payments / tap to pay is available systemwide
open payments / tap to pay is available systemwide
July 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
it’s official!
open payments / tap to pay is available systemwide
open payments / tap to pay is available systemwide
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"If you truly consider tonight's invocation, you'd recognize that NDP has not been acting with truth, equity, and love...again, they should be on a performance plan, not given greater scope."
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"If you truly consider tonight's invocation, you'd recognize that NDP has not been acting with truth, equity, and love...again, they should be on a performance plan, not given greater scope."
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It was a completely idiotic, ill-thought, and unnecessary reaction.
This tree did NOT block visibility whatsoever.
Its knee-jerk removal is symbolic of decision makers’ inability to properly evaluate and act on ped safety in Nashville.
This tree did NOT block visibility whatsoever.
Its knee-jerk removal is symbolic of decision makers’ inability to properly evaluate and act on ped safety in Nashville.
July 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It was a completely idiotic, ill-thought, and unnecessary reaction.
This tree did NOT block visibility whatsoever.
Its knee-jerk removal is symbolic of decision makers’ inability to properly evaluate and act on ped safety in Nashville.
This tree did NOT block visibility whatsoever.
Its knee-jerk removal is symbolic of decision makers’ inability to properly evaluate and act on ped safety in Nashville.
Didn’t know we used to have beautiful bridges in this town!
apparently it was Woodland Street, not Main. The Tennessean stitched it together with present day.
It was burned down by the First Confederacy when they were running away from the US Army.
It was burned down by the First Confederacy when they were running away from the US Army.
July 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Didn’t know we used to have beautiful bridges in this town!
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If I was just about to do something illegal, taking out my phone and scanning a random QR code is exactly the type of thing I’d want to do.
New signs in Antioch aim to curb illegal dumping with QR codes
New signs in Antioch aim to curb illegal dumping with QR codes
The new signs, which feature a QR code, will go up in popular dumping spots. It will connect people to legal drop-off sites.
www.wkrn.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If I was just about to do something illegal, taking out my phone and scanning a random QR code is exactly the type of thing I’d want to do.
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We are told over and over that we do not have the resources available right now to get things done at a pace we want and then you see what gets an ASAP. Not great. Not great at all.
June 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We are told over and over that we do not have the resources available right now to get things done at a pace we want and then you see what gets an ASAP. Not great. Not great at all.
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People will choose cycling if they feel safe riding.
it's not complicated.
it's not complicated.
June 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
People will choose cycling if they feel safe riding.
it's not complicated.
it's not complicated.
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Rule 27: Understand Induced Demand
The data tells us that every new mile of roadway that you build will typically be 40% filled up with new trips immediately, and 100% full within four years.
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/dp/16109189834
The data tells us that every new mile of roadway that you build will typically be 40% filled up with new trips immediately, and 100% full within four years.
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/dp/16109189834
June 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Rule 27: Understand Induced Demand
The data tells us that every new mile of roadway that you build will typically be 40% filled up with new trips immediately, and 100% full within four years.
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/dp/16109189834
The data tells us that every new mile of roadway that you build will typically be 40% filled up with new trips immediately, and 100% full within four years.
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/dp/16109189834
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It is absolutely striking that even though the East Bank team refused to even show the 4-lane designs from the Imagine East Bank Vision Plan in this survey, almost 80% of respondents rejected the 6-lane cross-sections they chose to show instead.
If that's not a mandate, I don't know what is.
If that's not a mandate, I don't know what is.
Greater than 3/4 majorities oppose the six-lane cross sections for River North and south of Jefferson St. Some in the "support" category also indicated a preference for walkability and safety. The survey, though, omitted the four-lane alternatives included in Imagine East Bank.
June 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It is absolutely striking that even though the East Bank team refused to even show the 4-lane designs from the Imagine East Bank Vision Plan in this survey, almost 80% of respondents rejected the 6-lane cross-sections they chose to show instead.
If that's not a mandate, I don't know what is.
If that's not a mandate, I don't know what is.