Metro Nashville receives two SMART grants for improvements to Murfreesboro Pike and Nolensville Road

Metro Nashville has received two Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants from the US Department of Transportation. The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure received a grant of $10 million for work on Nolensville Pike, and WeGo Public Transit received a $1.9 million grant for better bus service on Murfreesboro Pike, the route with the highest transit ridership in Nashville. “These competitive grants will help us accelerate improvements on two of our busiest roads that were a priority of our Choose How You Move program,” Mayor Freddie O’Connell said. “We’re excited to be able to showcase how smarter streets are safer streets, especially on some of our most dangerous roads.” The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) received $10 million to implement Phase II of the city’s Leveraging Advanced Data to Deliver Multimodal Safety (LADDMS) initiative. The goal of Phase II is to improve the safety of vulnerable road users along the Nolensville Pike corridor and continue enhancing safety along the Stage I corridor. The project will deploy sensing, analytics, and interventions piloted in Phase I at a larger scale. Prioritized locations include pedestrian and cyclist safety along the High Injury Network (HIN) as outlined in...