A new report is calling on Metro to make a number of quick changes to improve the safety of city streets for pedestrians and cyclists.

Local advocacy nonprofit Walk Bike Nashville released their “State of Our Streets” report Tuesday. It details wins and failures of city government.

The “win” is the 1.5-mile bike lane on 12th Avenue South, which the report lauds for the “high-level of coordination across Metro departments” to get it made.

The report also highlights Open Streets Nashville — a program that temporarily closes streets to cars on certain days — as the “most powerful tool” to help people reframe the way they think about public street spaces. While it was launched in 2015 as a partnership between Walk Bike Nashville and Metro, the report points out that the program operates tod

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