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NDOT proposes six speed cushions, radar signs for Heights Ferry Road after neighborhood meeting
Summary
At a June 26 neighborhood meeting, an NDOT engineer outlined a draft plan for traffic calming on Heights Ferry Road — six speed-cushion locations on the northern segment, radar feedback signs on the southern segment — and described the neighborhood ballot and timeline for installation.
David Greaves, an engineer who works with the Nashville Department of Transportation’s traffic calming program, presented a draft design and next steps for a traffic-calming project on Heights Ferry Road at a neighborhood meeting on June 26, 2025.
Greaves said the project area under study runs from County Hospital Road north to John Mallett Drive and that NDOT’s preliminary design proposes six sets of speed cushions in the northern section and radar feedback signs on the portion south of County Hospital Road. "These are kind of the go-to because they physically make speeding, like, uncomfortable," Greaves said of speed cushions.
The meeting focused on why the street was selected and which tools NDOT can use. Greaves said Heights Ferry was one of more than 600 neighborhood streets that applied to the city’s traffic calming program earlier in 2025 and was ranked in the top 25 by a…
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