Tag Archives: road closures
Bright & Early: Digging To China Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Despite the fact that we’ve all been navigating around the convention center construction and road closures for several weeks, the “groundbreaking” ceremony is scheduled for Monday. During that time, the Mayor and other city leaders will do that thing where they put on hard hats and pretend to dig important holes while [...]
Bright & Early: Keep The Lights On Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By the looks of our Twitter feed, many of you guys started out the morning in the dark. According to NES lightning struck the Edmonson Pike substation a little after 6am, causing a widespread power outage that lasted for about an hour and affected more than 10,000 customers. Storms are expected to [...]
Happy Hour: Jump Off That Sofa
Metro is trying their absolute best to drum up support for the new convention center by, well, taking possession of the Sommet Center parking lot and blocking it off during tonight’s Black Eyed Peas show, resulting in the kind of apocalyptic overflow of parked cars that can only be caused by a crowd of 10,000 [...]
Bright & Early: Getting Around Edition
Good morning, Nashville. More details about the big transit meeting are emerging and it turns out that city leaders are kicking around actual ideas for a light rail system sometime in the (probably distant) future. Though we know that this kind of talk makes the rounds at least once or twice a year, the Nashville [...]
Bright & Early: #TheSituation2010
Good morning, Nashville. Whether you’re reading this from under your covers at home or you’re cursing the school children for that snow day you didn’t get, the winter weather is on its way. As predicted, the city is taking every possible precaution including readying emergency response crews, putting the electric company on standby, working out [...]
Nashville On New Years Eve: A Survival Guide [Road Closures] [Etc]
With upwards of 10,000 people expected to brave tomorrow night’s chilly temperatures for the big inaugural Bash on Broadway, midnight guitar drop and fireworks display, things are bound to get a little sticky, so we put together a little survival guide to get you through the last hours of 2009 with us. Let us know [...]
Happy Hour: Cold Snap
In case you didn’t read about it everywhere else on the internet, Arlington, TN Mayor Russell Wiseman was a little upset about missing out on the Charlie Brown Christmas special and had some choice things to say about President Obama, on Facebook. [Tennessean]
Just a few days after Tennessee capped enrollment in the CoverKids program for [...]
Christmas Parade With Red Noses & John Rich [Road Closures]
Get ready to ring in the holidays downtown tonight, with Nashville’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, Rudolph’s Red Nose Run and the Christmas Parade. Yes, it’s only December 4, but as if on cue, Mother Nature has dropped some Christmas-y weather on Nashville, just in time for our most festive holiday weekend (yeah, about that…)! [...]
Brace Yourselves For Impact: It’s Veterans CMApocalypse ‘09 [Road Closures]
What happens when CMApocalypse meets Veterans Day? Road closures, that’s what! You’ll find us stuffing our faces with free burritos all day in lieu of driving anywhere.
Already closed:
Demonbreun from Fifth to Sixth Avenue
Closing Wednesday, November 11:
10AM: Fifth Avenue South from Franklin Street to Broadway
10AM: Demonbreun from Fourth to Sixth Avenue
3:30PM: Clark Place between Sixth [...]
This Weekend: Do Your Best To Dodge The Fun [Road Closures]
… In the car, at least! Getting stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic is one of the best ways to ruin the fun on a weekend filled to the brim with places to go and people to see. Pay attention to the following road closures as you hop from festival to football this weekend:
FRIDAY
All day: 5th Ave [...]
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