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NDOT proposes speed cushions on Sultana Avenue; property owners to decide by ballot
Summary
A consultant for the Nashville Department of Transportation outlined a preliminary plan to install two sets of speed cushions on Sultana Avenue to reduce speeding and improve pedestrian safety. Property owners abutting the corridor will receive a six‑week mailed ballot; two‑thirds approval is required to install cushions.
Jeff Hammond, a consultant for the Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT), on Tuesday proposed installing two sets of speed cushions on Sultana Avenue to slow traffic and improve pedestrian safety, and said the plan will go to a mailed ballot of property owners.
Hammond said NDOT placed Sultana in its traffic‑calming program after staff analysis showed an 80th‑percentile speed of about 29 mph, roughly 1,000 vehicles per day, a pavement width near 20 feet and a project length of about a quarter mile. "Right now, we're sitting on a backlog of something around 600 streets," he said, explaining the department selects about 25 projects twice a year based on a scoring model that weights vehicle counts and speeds,…
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