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BPAC urges quicker safety fixes after recent fatal and serious crashes
Summary
Nashville's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission told council and transportation partners it wants faster quick-build safety projects and more public participation after high-profile pedestrian and bicycle crashes, and said increased transparency and streaming of meetings will help community input.
The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission urged Metro leaders to move from study to action and to accelerate low-cost safety measures at known high-risk locations after two recent serious incidents at the same marked crosswalk.
Catherine McDonald, chair of BPAC, told a joint meeting of council, NDOT and other commissions that BPAC members and volunteers are seeing unsafe conditions firsthand and want faster, clearer paths from design to construction. "Even after a tragedy that garnered a lot of public attention and even at a location that we all know is unsafe, we are still failing to do enough to prevent people from being hurt and killed on our streets," McDonald said, referring to the death of Dot…
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