Community Tools to Improve Your Neighborhood’s Streets
Did you know you have the power to make the streets and roads in your neighborhood safer, more accessible, and more livable? Tools like hubNashville, NDOT programs, and NDOT boards and commissions ensure your neighborhood has tools to make a difference.
NDOT’s programs are designed to help you organize your community and make a positive impact. Take advantage of opportunities to work with your neighbors to make your community cleaner, safer, and more livable like a neighborhood clean-up, tactical urbanism project, or open street.
Get Involved with Nashville’s Transportation Projects
Do you want to understand how to get involved with an NDOT project? The Community Engagement Playbook outlines NDOT’s approach to community engagement for transportation projects. You can learn more about NDOT’s four engagement tiers and the community engagement process in the Community Engagement Playbook.
NDOT is committed to equitable access to the community engagement process. Tools like Census.gov and the United States Department of Transportation’s Equitable Transportation Community Explorer guide NDOT in designating resources to meaningfully engage in Justice40 disadvantaged communities. The department has interpreters available to provide translation and interpretation services for engagement. We also provide a list of frequently used terms so that you can understand new terms and acronyms used by the department.
To request an interpreter for an NDOT event or meeting, contact NDOT Communications.
Get Involved in the Decision-Making Process
Attending board, commission, and committee meetings provide regular opportunities to share neighborhood concerns with NDOT’s decision-making and advisory bodies.
NDOT oversees five boards, commissions, and committees:
- The Beautification and Environment Commission works to make Nashville clean, safe, and attractive.
- The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission increases the safety and use of bicycle, micro mobility devices, and pedestrian travel as significant and beneficial modes of transportation and recreation.
- The Traffic and Parking Commission make the roads, streets and other public ways safe for pedestrians, motorists and others.
- The Transportation Licensing Commission has jurisdiction of the licensing and regulation of all vehicles for hire, including, but not limited to, taxicabs, wreckers, sedans, limousines, horse drawn carriages, and persons or businesses engaged in the practice of "booting" vehicles.
- The Vision Zero Advisory Committee meets monthly to collaborate with the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) on various Vision Zero efforts.
