NDOT proposes speed cushions for Enchanted Circle; property owners to vote in six-week ballot

Nashville Department of Transportation staff and consultants presented a final design for traffic calming on Enchanted Circle Drive and said property owners within the project limits will be mailed a six-week ballot to decide whether the project proceeds.

NDOT consultant David Greaves, an engineer working on the project for the consulting firm Gimli Horn on behalf of NDOT, said the Enchanted Circle design relies mainly on speed cushions and signage to reduce speeds and improve safety. "There are 3 E's in traffic calming. Those are education, enforcement, and engineering," Greaves said, adding that engineering is the agency's primary tool to change roadway behavior.

The design presented to the neighborhood calls for clusters of speed cushions at multiple locations along Enchanted Circle Drive. Greaves said the southern end would get one set of cushions between Hidesdale Lane and Drakes Branch Road; a series of cushions is proposed around the main curve and hill (two before Drakes Hill Drive, one on the climb, one at the crest and one on the descent), and two cushions north of Kings Lane before Golden Hill Drive. At each location NDOT proposes three cushion modules across the travel lane where the…