Thank you for responding. This isn't the first time I reported this safety hazard and I hope that a traffic light gets installed quickly. There's too much distance between the two lights, between W. Hamilton and Trinity Lane on Clarksville Pike. There's nothing to slow the cars or give mothers and their small children a way to cross safely to the side of the street (in front of the magnet middle school) where the bus stop is located to catch a ride to their destinations.

January 25, 2012
Public Works has not initiated any kind of traffic study and women continue to cross Clarksville Pike with toddlers and babies in strollers to get to the bus stop. A traffic light needs to be installed before something tragic happens. Why is this taking so long?

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Metro Public Works
615-862-8750

Please contact our call center to be connected to the engineer assigned to this request. He is needing additional information.

Metro Public Works
615-862-8750

Thank you and I will.

I will contact Public Works. They close at 4 pm and I attempted to contact them after 4p. Thank you.

A work order has been issued to install “ Pedestrian. “ advanced warning signs on Clarksville Pike in advanced of Ashton Avenue, as requested. We will get these installed as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Public Works
615-862-8750

Thank you for the response but I'm not sure what "advanced pedestrian warning signs" means. There needs to be a stop light placed at the corner of Ashton Avenue and Clarksville Pike where I.T. Creswell Magnet School is situated. The distance from W. Hamilton to W. Trinity Lane/Buena Vista Pike without a stop light results in people speeding south on Clarksville Pike headed toward Metro Center. Please install a stop light so mothers and their toddler's and babies in strollers don't get mowed down trying to cross the street WITHOUT A LIGHT!! Thank you.

There are certain specifications that have to be met according to the Traffic & Parking Code for signals to be installed. After a study at this location it was determined that a traffic signal is not warranted. However, the installed “ Pedestrian" Warning signs are intended to warn all drivers of the potential for pedestrian crossings, and to increase the safety at or near this intersection and nearby area. They are of the type “ Fluorescent Yellow – Green “ background that are highly visible at all times.

Thank you,

Public Works
615-862-8750

I am confident that when news of a woman, her toddler, a baby in stroller or other pedestrian trying to cross the street from Zack's market/gas station to get to the bus stop on the other side of the street, in front of a school, in a school zone, are mowed down by speeding motorist who don't observe speed limits (so what makes you think they will observe a metal sign), it will become easier to figure out how to adjust the 'specifications' to ensure pedestrian safety. The distance between stop lights is too great. No one should have to dodge cars trying to cross a street to get to a bus stop. There needs to be a stop light as the only place to cross is either at the Trinity Lane/Beuna Vista light or all the way back down to W. Hamilton.

Thank you for responding. Follow your 'specifications' and hopefully no one is killed trying to catch a bus.

I have seen the neon colored signs. They have not had the intended result of slowing traffic. A traffic light needs to be installed.

Women with babies in strollers continue to have to navigate crossing the street to get to the bus stop. Women with small children still have to stand in the middle of Clarksville Highway to wait for cars to pass by before they continue their trek to the other side of the street. Again I tell you, there needs to be a stop light installed. That little neon sign has NO IMPACT on the flow of traffic--cars still speed and the danger. Do you not care about the safety of this demographic in the Nashville community? Are they not worth the cost of installing a traffic light? Will it take an injury before you realize the necessity of investing in a traffic light? The distance between W. Hamilton and Trinity Lane is too great to not have a traffic light. It invites and actually sustains speeding violations.

I'm wondering what good the neon colored pedestrian crossing sign/symbol does when there is no PAINTED cross walk to further alert drivers speeding north and south on Clarksville Highway that there are pedestrians? It appears to me that Public Works has opted for the cheapest way, not the safest way, to address what they obviously recognize is a safety hazard. The corner of Ashton and Clarksville Highway is in a school zone and although the entrance to the school is at the opposite end of Ashton, I would hope that for the sake of children Public Works would install a light or in the least a STOP SIGN. If installing a stop light is too costly to save lives of mothers, infants, children and citizens of Nashville, then at least install a STOP SIGN to force cars to slow down long enough to and allow pedestrians to cross safely.

I am in the process of getting photographs of women with their children crossing Clarksville Pike at Ashton to provide a visual of the dangers that exist because of NO stop sign or stop light. Drivers ignore the pedestrian crossing sign that was posted and continue to speed. I will attach a photo once captured. LEAVE ISSUE OPEN

Finally, I was able to capture a photo of a mom and stroller attempting to navigate traffic to get to the bus stop. Look, and tell me if in good conscious you think this is safe, and it happens every day. The mother agreed to have her photo shared when I told her what I was attempting to get a light installed. She agreed and was grateful. The yellow 'ped x-ing' sign is a joke--there isn't even a painted crosswalk to reinforce where people cross the street, nor is the speed limit reduced, nor is there flashing lights to slow cars down. Please install a light. Thank you.

Another photo of oncoming traffic mom was having to negotiate with baby in stroller.

Mom standing in the median waiting for a chance to not be run down and get to the bus stop.

Ms. Veronica is correct in acknowledgement of the fact that there is no traffic light
where many people turn left at the corner for the YMCA and there may need to
be one at entrance to the Renewal House (yellow building) on Clarksville Highway
because there are a lot of mothers like this one trying to get a better handle on
their lives and they need help and it is scary, I should know my family member
lived near there not long ago, and I noticed it was hard crossing the street in
that area and that area goes unnoticed.

Thank you Brenda. Share this with every neighbor and friend so that we can turn up the pressure on Metro and get a stop light. Just a month or so ago a woman was crossing on the Sonic side of Clarksville Hwy and was hit and killed, at night. Its a shame to have to cross 4 lanes of high speed traffic with a baby in tow.

Your welcome, so I will give the information to my daughter, she should be the advocate, I have my
work cut out for me with CSX Railroad, My mom worked for 30 years, only to live out the rest of
her days listening to a darn train wrecking her nerves. Her house is not solid concrete and somedays
I have ran from one room to another. The noise ordinance is old and needs to be revised to accommodate the growing population and demands of many areas such as industrial, traffic,
commercial, garbage trucks, and the government should provide options to bring about solutions
and genuine concern for people and their communities, cause they want you to vote, but until
then they sit in their offices and bother to contact any of the people. If they don't I won't vote.

Let's look at another issue a mother with child is bad, but a mother with 2 children is very vulnerable
I have been in that area and she has to run across the four lanes and watch for cars at the top of
that hill that that runs Trinity Lane to the YMCA there is a hill, which if on foot you can't see over, and that is what makes you most vulnerable. All in all she has to keep a cool head, or things can go bad
quickly.

Dear resident:
Thank-you for using our Customer Service website. A request has been submitted to an engineer to check on installing a crosswalk. If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. In addition to e-mail, you can also reach us at (615) 862-8750, Option 2. Have a great day!

Customer Service
Metro Public Works

Thanks for fixing this issue!