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NDOT proposes speed cushions and lane-narrowing for Monticello Drive after residents report crashes and property damage
Summary
Nashville Department of Transportation staff showed two preliminary traffic-calming plans for a quarter-mile Monticello Drive segment — one with three speed-cushion sets and one with two cushions plus a designated 'safe shoulder' — and outlined a 6-week ballot that adjacent property owners must approve by two-thirds before construction.
Jeff Hammond, a consultant working with the Nashville Department of Transportation, presented preliminary traffic-calming designs for a roughly quarter-mile segment of Monticello Drive and said city data show the neighborhood qualifies for the program. "The speed that we collected was 37 miles an hour," Hammond said, describing the 80th-percentile speed for the corridor and noting average daily volume of about 900 vehicles.
Hammond offered two alternatives to slow driving: a typical layout of three sets of speed cushions spaced about 460 feet apart along the 1,400-foot segment, and a second option that removes one set of cushions in favor of a marked "slow, safe shoulder" created by lane narrowing. He…
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