NASHVILLE TENNESSEE( Totally Underrated ) (Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain: stats, transit, metro)

[nashvols]

Originally Posted by oobanks

I think you may be off in the Density department as other posters have stated, Nashville is a Consolidated Government, so it may look less dense on paper but no less dense than a lot of Cities you listed above. Also Nashville already has Commuter Rail, something Some of the above Cities like Atlanta don't have as of yet. They do have heavy rail and light rails though.

Nashville is less dense than a lot of those cities, but the disparity is not what a lot of people think. It's in the ballpark of most Southern cities around its size.

[hunterseat]

I absolutely LOVE the Hermitage! I spent way too much time in Memphis to have not been to Nashville but a time or two.

[mjtinmemphis]

Originally Posted by nashvols

. Some up and over 10,000 per square mile.

Where?

[nashvols]

Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis

Where?

The projects.

[mjtinmemphis]

Originally Posted by nashvols

The projects.

Wow I've never seen that side of Nashville.

[nashvols]

Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis

Wow I've never seen that side of Nashville.

Not talking about towers, either. Just your regular 2-3 story project blocks.

To be fair, this is drawn along Census Tracts. If you were talking about a single area of density, The Gulch is, or soon will be the most dense residential area of town.

[mjtinmemphis]

Originally Posted by nashvols

Not talking about towers, either. Just your regular 2-3 story project blocks.

To be fair, this is drawn along Census Tracts. If you were talking about a single area of density, The Gulch is, or soon will be the most dense residential area of town.

I've lived in areas where that type of density exists in Hyde Park Chicago and Tower Grove in St Louis. I've never seen that type of density in Nashville.

[artemis]

Originally Posted by Wheatridger

Don't hold your breath for rail or any kind of mass transit to blanket the Metro area. Physically and practically, Nashville has three strikes against it. It's hilly, the historic road rights of way are narrow, and most importantly, it's very low-density.

I just checked a graph from governing.com, that shows Nashville with a population density of 1,265 people per square mile. How does that stack up with other comparable cities? Last. Charlotte, mentioned earlier, has twice the density, at 2,457. Atlanta's sprawling, car-strangled mess is denser still, with 3,164 per mile. Dallas and Houston are in the mid-3,000s, and St. Louis has a whopping 5,157 residents per sq. mi. On another list of 200 cities, only eight were less dense than Nashville, including Huntsville, Oklahoma City and Anchorage.

My transplanted home town of Denver (3,922) has struggled to build a regional light rail system. After 20 years of sporadic construction and two contentious tax elections, we'll achieve a five-armed spoke and hub system next year. All used freeway margins or surplus railroad rights of way, and the routes were generally flat and straight.

Probably the best Nashville can hope for are local improvements like the Gulch pedestrian bridge and local circulator buses. But what was that light rail train I thought I saw crossing the river during a setting shot of "Nashville" tonight. Or was I dreaming?

That is the Music City Star commuter train. It runs between Downtown & points Eastward.
(Donelson, Mount Juliet, Lebanon)

[oobanks]

Originally Posted by nashvols

Nashville is less dense than a lot of those cities, but the disparity is not what a lot of people think. It's in the ballpark of most Southern cities around its size.

I dont think you give Nashville enough Credit...

[shinestx]

Originally Posted by oobanks

I think you may be off in the Density department as other posters have stated, Nashville is a Consolidated Government, so it may look less dense on paper but no less dense than a lot of Cities you listed above. Also Nashville already has Commuter Rail, something Some of the above Cities like Atlanta don't have as of yet. They do have heavy rail and light rails though.

Keep in mind, over a third of Davidson County, north of the CBD is primarily forested and rural areas. However, that 150 square miles area is still used in the density calculations. If you look at a nighttime aerial of Davidson County, you will see darkness northwest of the I-24/I-65 split.