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NDOT to replace proposed Bighorn traffic circle with additional speed cushion after neighborhood input
Summary
At a neighborhood meeting, NDOT staff presented a traffic-calming concept for Bighorn Drive and said they will remove a proposed traffic circle and instead add a fourth speed cushion; the project will move to a property-owner ballot before construction, likely about a year away.
Jeff Hammond, a consultant working on behalf of the Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT), told residents at a neighborhood meeting that NDOT plans to install traffic-calming measures on Bighorn Drive from Cascade Drive to Bighorn Court and will revise an early plan to replace a proposed traffic circle with an additional speed cushion.
The change matters because the street registers an 80th-percentile speed of about 35 mph, carries roughly 1,700 vehicles per day and is widely used for walking and bicycling despite lacking sidewalks, NDOT staff said. Residents and the councilman raised concerns about motorcycles and high-speed cut-through traffic from nearby lake-area subdivisions.
NDOT said the initial concept showed three speed cushions along the roughly 1,200-foot project length and a traffic circle at the Cascade–Bighorn intersection.…
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