The Edgehill and Chestnut bikeways originated in the WalknBike 2022-2024 work plan and will be funded and implemented by Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s Choose How You Move (CHYM) program, making practical, cost-effective investments that improve daily mobility, connect people to essential services, and make streets safer across Nashville. The bikeway projects will provide safe connections for people biking to local neighborhoods, transit stops, schools, and parks by adding protected bicycle lanes and reducing the speed of traffic. This bikeway corridor extends from Edgehill Avenue at 21st Avenue South, along Chestnut Street, and to Wharf Avenue at Lafayette Street. The design plans for both corridors are in the final stages with construction on the Chestnut corridor to begin in late Spring 2026, and Edgehill construction to follow.
Review the current design plans for the Edgehill and Chestnut bikeways:
NDOT has received and addressed some comments on previous versions of the design concepts. In response to community feedback, the Edgehill design now includes pick-up/drop-off improvements next to the University School of Nashville. The public will be able to review the 90% design concepts in Spring 2026.
In addition to the Edgehill bikeway, NDOT will make improvements to a connecting street, Hillside Avenue from Olympic Street to Wedgewood Avenue. The improvements include installing a protected bike lane in both directions, improving transit stops throughout the corridor, improved corridor signage, and adjusting intersection alignments. Click the link below to review the design plans.
Hillside Avenue 90% Design Plans (updated March 2026)
Community Opportunities to Learn More
If you would like the project team to present at your next in-person or virtual community meeting or attend an event, please reach out to the project manager Chris Augustinos.
Community Events and Previous Engagement Opportunities
NDOT attended the following events and meetings to promote these projects.
- March 25, 2026 Council District 18 Community Meeting from 5:30-7:00pm at Eakin Elementary School
- October 30, 2025: Carter Lawrence Elementary Fall Festival Tabling
- May 14, 2025: Nashville Soccer Club Bike Ride and Tabling
- March 11, 2025: Chestnut Hill Neighborhood Association Meeting
- October 26, 2024: William Edmonson Festival Tabling
- May 24, 2024: Urban Housing Solutions Block Party and Resource Fair
- May 17, 2024: Bike to Work Day
- May 15, 2024: Midtown Music Row Meeting
- May 14, 2024: WeHo Social Meeting at Jackalope Brewing
- April 19, 2024: Edgehill Apartments Edgehill/Belmont Better Together Lunch & Learn Lunch & Learn
- March 20, 2024: LEAD High Roundtable at LEAD Cameron Middle School
- February 28, 2024: Chestnut Hill Neighborhood Association Meeting at Turnip Green Creative Reuse
Two-Way Cycle Track Memo
As part of the Edgehill bikeway design and engagement process, community members had proposed a two-way protected cycletrack on one side of the street as opposed to the planned one-way protected bike lanes on both sides of the street. The project technical team analyzed a two-way protected cycletrack and recommended the current design of one-way protected bike lanes as a safer, more intuitive, and equally comfortable option. The memo linked below explains the technical analysis for the decision to move forward with one-way protected bike lanes on both sides of the street.
View the Two-Way Cycletrack Technical Memo
