Guess it's too much to hope oracle will lose interest and sell it to someone that actually wants an urban campus...

Lol good eye! Ran it with my 12yo, while my 10yo ran ahead and finished in 25.

I'm Wesssley fan club. JWesss for mayor.

It just seems like sidewalk extension is a better mental framework for what the actual goal should be here, which is to take excess space back from cars for people. And sidewalks have the benefit of being a more widely understood, popular commodity. Maybe there's something I'm missing.

I guess nothing would be different in terms of painted lines and posts (preferably w/some curbs). But right now they call it a bike lane, paint bicycles on it, and put it on the bike map. 99% of the normie population that encounters any of that concludes something like "bike lanes are wasted space".

But why a bike lane rather than a sidewalk extension? When they sign it as a bike lane, a whole lot of people see the highly visible, unused space and write off bike lanes in general. And the theoretical "next steps" seem to be running decades (at least) on these highway-style roads.

Everyone needs to memorize our Complete Streets Implementation guide:

I would genuinely like to know, even if (or maybe especially if) it's the second one. Why am I wasting my and my family's time trying to participate in @nashvilledot.bsky.social and @metronashplan.bsky.social public feedback processes that doesn't actually carry any weight?

What if it's more like synthetic diamonds though? As the content becomes more freely available, the consumer values it less. Drunk on power, they inevitably sew the seeds of their own demise...

The East Bank Boulevard is being proposed to have a 110-foot ROW, with SIX travel lanes. This will be an incredibly dangerous, high-injury network that the city is choosing to build from scratch. This is ridiculously absurd, foolish, and inexcusable on so many levels.

Actually, no, you can’t. Engineers & elected officials hoping/pretending they’ll make everyone happy (or mostly ppl driving not mad) undermines a city’s purported health & safety goals. Pushing against, rather than acquiescing to, car dominance is exhausting. www.nashville.gov/featured-ini...

Then, take the survey and say NO to six-lane highways in the East Bank!
Questions #4 and #5 ask if we support the proposed designs. We do not. They'd be dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists, transit users, and drivers and a huge missed opportunity for Nashville.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/EastBankBo...

Love the idea of an actually useful bike map! Here's an old thread when they were redoing The Groove: x.com/arong2050/st.... The main things to me are (A) admit which of our "bike lanes" are insane and don't send people to those and (B) try to direct bikers to low-speed neighborhood streets.