Streets Designed for Everyone
Rather than designing streets primarily for cars, Complete Streets take a human-centered approach that considers how people of all ages and abilities experience a corridor every day. These projects are part of Nashville's broader investment in sidewalks, signals, service, safety, and All-Access Corridors — building a more reliable, connected transportation network for everyone.
The voter-approved Choose How You Move (CHYM) Transportation Improvement Program invests in 39 miles of transformative Complete Streets projects to improve safety, connectivity, accessibility, and quality of life across the city. These projects follow Metro Nashville’s Green and Complete Streets Executive Order and are tailored to the unique context of each corridor and neighborhood.
Why Complete Streets Matter
When streets work better for everyone, neighborhoods become:
- Safer, with improved crossings, signals, lighting, and spaces for people walking, biking, rolling, and driving
- More connected, linking residents to schools, parks, jobs, local businesses, healthcare, and transit
- More livable, especially for families, seniors, and people with disabilities
- More equitable, ensuring people can move comfortably, safely, and with dignity regardless of how they travel
- More resilient and sustainable, through the integration of street trees and green infrastructure to reduce flooding, improve water quality, and cool the pavement on hot days.
Choose How You Move includes investments along 33 miles of Nashville’s Vision Zero High Injury Network, where serious crashes are most concentrated, as well as additional safety improvements along All-Access Corridors.
What You’ll See on a Complete Street
Every Complete Street is different because every neighborhood is different. Some corridors may require only targeted safety upgrades and resurfacing, while others may involve more substantial reconstruction to improve how the street functions for everyone. Improvements are designed based on community input, technical analysis, and the specific needs of each corridor. Depending on the context, Complete Streets projects may include:
- Wide, accessible sidewalks
- Safe crosswalks and pedestrian signals
- Protected bike lanes or shared-use paths
- Transit improvements and enhanced bus stops
- On-street parking that helps protect people walking and biking
- Improved street lighting and visibility
- Traffic calming and safer vehicle speeds
- Street trees, bioswales, and landscaping
- Stormwater infrastructure and drainage improvements
- Intersection redesigns to reduce conflicts between modes
CHYM-Powered Projects
Across Nashville, Choose How You Move is advancing Complete Streets projects that improve safety, connectivity, and access for people of all ages and abilities.
Historic Jefferson Street
The Jefferson Street Corridor Study is evaluating Complete Street improvements in North Nashville to create a safer, more connected corridor for residents, businesses, transit riders, and visitors. The project focuses on improving mobility, accessibility, and neighborhood connections while honoring the corridor’s historic and cultural significance.
Jefferson Street Corridor Study
Edgehill Avenue and Chestnut Street
The Edgehill Avenue and Chestnut Street project is improving safety and connectivity for people walking, biking, rolling, riding transit, and driving between Midtown, Edgehill, Wedgwood-Houston, and downtown. The project includes bikeway improvements, safer crossings, and multimodal street upgrades.
Edgehill Avenue and Chestnut Street Project
East Nashville Spokes
The East Nashville Spokes project will better connect East Nashville neighborhoods to downtown, transit, and key destinations. Developed through extensive community engagement and technical analysis, the Spokes project includes protected bike lanes, enhanced pedestrian crossings, optimized intersections, and other Complete Street measures along Woodland/Union Streets, South 5th Street, and South 10th Street.
Church Street
The Church Street Complete Street project is advancing multimodal improvements along one of downtown Nashville’s key east-west corridors. The project will improve safety, accessibility, and connectivity for people walking, biking, riding transit, and driving through the urban core. Planned improvements include safer crossings, upgraded sidewalks, bikeway connections, transit-supportive features, and streetscape enhancements.
Church Street Complete Street Project
East Thompson Lane
The East Thompson Lane Complete Street project is evaluating upgrades to improve safety and access for people walking, biking, rolling, riding transit, and driving, while strengthening connections between neighborhoods, schools, parks, businesses, and bus routes. Planned improvements may include sidewalks, bikeways, safer crossings, intersection upgrades, and traffic calming measures tailored to the corridor’s unique suburban context.
East Thompson Lane Multimodal Project
Explore all current and future Complete Streets projects made possible by Choose How You Move: Check out our Interactive Maps page.
Learn more about this approach to planning, designing, and building streets that enable safe access for all users, of all ages and abilities, via the National Complete Streets Coalition.
Last updated: May 22, 2026 at 11:03 AM