i could be wrong, but i don't think this had any accompanying expressway improvements...i think even
denver dangled that carrot...this absolutely should have been part of the nashville plan, politically speaking...if they were interested in it passing...i think there was some hubris, here.
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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
It has one of the most complicated layouts in the United States, filled with all sorts of nuance that isn't obvious on Google Maps or even when driving around. Superficially it looks like an ordinary place but it is far from it. I asked for specific recommendations from the nay-sayers. They don't even know the street names. They don't know how to pronounce Demonbreun.
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to be sure, cincinnati is probably an order of magnitude more convoluted when you consider the amount of the city that is tucked away in bizarre corners (and of course famously also had a transit plan go down in smoke, unfortunately). i've yet to really get lost in nashville although it certainly is no chicago when it comes to a rigid urban grid, i will give you that. what is very apparent is the lack of large-scope regional infrastructure improvements, which this plan obviously was taking a crack at. the stroads going out of nashville are terrible on multiple levels, and the city never developed much of a higher capacity urban boulevard system from what i can tell.
the larger problem is the lack of funding for transit and urban improvements at the
state level (as well as national of course) in red states. we get
nothing from missouri for our metro extensions in st. louis and of course are way behind. in don't know what tennessee was going to kick in but my guess is not much...