Bright & Early: Watch Where You Step Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We never thought that walking around in Nashville was a particularly dangerous thing, but a new report shows that we’re one of the least safe cities in America for pedestrians thanks to our bad drivers (and a little bit of jaywalking). Since January 2004, about 1,600 pedestrians have been hit by cars and 73 were actually killed. Hot spots for car-to-person collisions include Broadway between 1st and 12th avenues and the Main Street/Gallatin Road/Gallatin Pike corridor. Despite a few attempts to make our city a little more walkable by adding more bike lanes and sidewalks, no one seems to how to avoid or even reduce these incidents.
- TVA steps up nuclear involvement. We’ll admit it- When we think of large corporations we’d like to put in charge of feeding our nation’s nuclear weapon supply, the TVA doesn’t exactly top our list. However, the US Department of Defense plans to step up production of tritium (radioactive hydrogen) for its nuclear warheads by beginning to manufacture it at the TVA’s Sequoyah plant near Chattanooga.
- People these days. The KKK flyers that popped up in Sylvan Park and Green Hills a few months ago are back. Dozens of folks reported racist literature in their front yards on Sunday with contact information for the KKK.
- Bits & pieces. Nashville MTA is starting to roll out its fancy new Bus Rapid Transit system along Gallatin Road … A high school in Memphis has become the first in the state to offer Arabic classes … In a unfortunate-but-fairly-predictable turn of events, former Smash Mouth front man Steve Harwell is putting out a country album … We can’t believe how nice it’s going to be today.
Photo by Neuski.
