NDOT unveils traffic‑calming and bikeway plan for Apple Valley Road after selection from 600+ applicants

Nashville Department of Transportation officials presented a preliminary traffic‑calming and bikeway design for Apple Valley Road during a virtual neighborhood meeting on June 16, 2025, saying the street was selected from a pool of more than 600 applicant streets.

David Grieves, an engineer who works with NDOT on the traffic calming program, said the project limits run from Greenacres Drive to Conair Drive and that field measurements showed the 85th‑percentile speed on Apple Valley was 39 miles per hour and the road carries about 1,500 vehicles per day. "We found that the 80 fifth percent speed was 39 miles an hour," Grieves said. He said Apple Valley’s width varies from about 26 feet to about 40 feet, which affects design choices.

The project team said the package aims primarily at reducing vehicle speeds and improving conditions for people walking and biking as part of NDOT’s Vision Zero safety work. "This is a program that primarily focuses on speed reduction with the hope of improving conditions for pedestrians, people biking, you know, neighbors on the street," Grieves said. The design combines vertical measures, lane narrowing and bikeway upgrades to address speeding, frequent driveway interactions and large corner radii that residents said encourage fast turns.

Nate Pickering, an engineer with LDA Engineering who prepared the plans, described the principal elements in the concept design: speed cushions spaced generally…