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NDOT proposes speed cushions for Oakley Drive after residents report speeding
Summary
The Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT) presented a preliminary traffic-calming plan for Oakley Drive proposing three sets of speed cushions after data showed an 85th-percentile speed of 35 mph and about 1,200 vehicles per day. The neighborhood will vote; a two-thirds approval of ballots cast is required to proceed.
The Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT) presented a preliminary plan on Oakley Drive that would add three sets of speed cushions after NDOT data showed an 85th‑percentile speed of 35 mph and about 1,200 vehicles per day on the half‑mile segment between Trousdale and Cochrane.
NDOT consultant Jeff Hammond said the agency ranks candidate streets from a backlog of about 500 applications and typically installs speed cushions on the top projects in each cohort. "Physical solutions usually are taking the form of something raised in the roadway that you either have to drive over or have to drive around," Hammond said, describing speed cushions as the program's "bread and butter."
NDOT staff told the neighborhood the proposed Oakley project would place three grouped speed cushions in flatter sections of the roughly 2,640‑foot segment,…
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