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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
‘What we want is a fair conversation': Concerns over the design process of East Bank Boulevard
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As work continues along Nashville's East Bank, some think not every option for the main roadway through the development is getting a fair chance. In 2022, Metro released the 'Imagine East Bank Vision Plan,' which includes three alternatives for East Bank Boulevard — the main road through the project. A six-lane concept includes two lanes for cars in either direction and one bus lane in either direction with protected bike lanes, and there are two four-lane options included within the plan. APRIL | Civic design organization calls for 4-lane streets with protected bike lanes in East Bank Development At a Tuesday Vision Zero Advisory Committee, Katherine McDonnell — who chairs the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission — spoke up and said that she thinks leaders have favored the six-lane alternative over the four-lane options. McDonnell added that she previously served on the Vision Zero Advisory Committee, which studied 'high-injury networks' across Nashville, and finds the six-lane design too wide to align with Vision Zero's mission of reducing injuries and fatalities along Music City's roads. 'Why we're proposing to build a brand-new piece of our high-injury network in a brand-new neighborhood where we can build anything?' McDonnell said. '[It] really contradicts all the efforts that have been made until this point to go in the opposite direction in trying to reduce people from dying on our roadways.' Neighborhood News: Stories impacting your community | Read More 'This should not even be a finalized design at this point,' McDonnell said. 'There are three options on the table and I think what we want is a fair conversation around those three options.' The Nashville Mayor's Office sent News 2 a statement: 'The mayor's office doesn't build roads, so we don't have a position other than being supportive of a public comment process that has been ongoing for weeks. The East Bank team will take all shared feedback to create a database on the input. That work follows the remarkably robust public engagement process that informed the Imagine East Bank master plan.' Do you have news happening in your neighborhood? Let us know by sending an email to neighborhoodnews@ Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Sadler's Wells East: Dance theatre opens in Stratford
Sadler's Wells East is set to be officially opened later in what has been described as a "gamechanger" for dance in in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, the new venue has a 550-seat auditorium, six state-of-the-art dance studios and a free public performance productions showcasing work from locally-based artists as well as dance companies from across the United Kingdom and wider world are set to take place in its opening venue joins BBC Music Studios, V&A East, UAL's London College of Fashion and UCL East as part of the new educational district, East Bank, which was established following the London 2012 Olympic Games. It will also be home to two educational facilities: Academy Breakin' Convention, a hip hop theatre school for 16–19-year-olds, and the Rose Choreographic School, an experimental research forms of dance, from hip hop to ballet, contemporary to kathak, are set to be performed the summer, it will host a two-week youth festival which will bring together the national youth dance companies of England, Scotland and Wales, and share choreographic creations made by young people. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, said Sadler's Wells East would be another "exciting milestone in the East Bank journey". "Renowned across the world as the UK's leading dance institution, this brand-new venue will be a gamechanger for dance in the capital. "The school, studio spaces and electrifying programme will showcase and nurture talent not only from London but across the country and provide inspiration and opportunities for young people – a world class vision that's accessible to all, helping us build a better London for everyone."
