🏙️ How can downtown be safer for walkers/bikers?

🚶 Debating Downtown’s Walk/Bike Safety Problem

Downtown Nashville isn’t exactly safe for walkers and bikers. But what can be done about it? District 19 Councilmember Jacob Kupin and Vision Zero Advisory Committee member Charlie Weingartner face off on the City Cast Nashville podcast. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🪖 National Guard Deployed in Memphis

Mayor O’Connell and the Metro Nashville Police Department say they don’t think the National Guard will be deployed in Music City like in Memphis. Violent crime rates in both cities are down. [Nashville Banner]

• Nashville’s new crime dashboard [The Nashville Alliance]

🪨 Tunnel Construction Proceeds Without Surveys

Instead of conducting geological studies at least a year in advance of breaking ground — regarded as best practices — The Boring Company is sampling rocks at the same time as construction, essentially “tunneling blindly underneath Nashville.” [WPLN]

• Catch up: What you need to know about the Music City Loop [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🎒 Teachers Struggle To Stock Classrooms

Local teachers are spending hundreds to thousands of dollars out of their paychecks on school supplies. Some have created Amazon wishlists, which MNPS prohibits. The state provides $200 a year to teachers for supplies. [Nashville Banner]

• School supply discounts for teachers [📰 Hey Nashville]