Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 13 segments
Jamie Hollin and Braden Gall talk Nashville news, politics and business. Council seeks more community engagement on right turn on red policy. Lots of expensive and costly bridge news. Not one but two…
Braden GallHostJamie HollandHost
They, they took up some, uh, they had the East spoke, which we'll talk about these Nashville spoke, uh, situation there, the music city center board votes.
They had an opioid funding vote, but really the one that really is, is the big piece of legislation, uh, is a deferral on the right turn on red legislation that initially the sponsor was Council Member Sandra Sepulveda, who sponsored a piece of legislation to outlaw all right turns on red over 700 intersections all across the USD, correct? Urban Services District.
you know me um and after some conversation certainly with council member cupin who is the downtown council member of course district 19.
it was reduced through conversation and through an amendment from 700 intersections to 59 intersections Now, you and I always have interesting reactions to the same thing.
I am of the belief that the Metro Council should be able to do more than one thing.
And I am of the belief that the Metro Council can look at a piece of legislation like, hey, let's shut down right turns on red in 59 extremely busy and dangerous intersections in downtown.
And let's just slow down cars and be more aware of pedestrians and also do all of their other jobs too.
I think that should be, you don't have to stop what you're doing on every other issue that the city needs to manage this, which according to the data, there were 22 injuries since the start of 2025.
One death is too many, but that is not a, what would you call that? An overwhelming crisis in the city? I would say it's not a crisis.
It's not a crisis in the city, but it is smart legislation that will make people safer.
It will make people safer because I don't know if you know this, but your head can't look two directions at once.
You can also do other things to help pedestrians in the city, which we'll get to in a moment.
They, they took up some, uh, they had the East spoke, which we'll talk about these Nashville spoke, uh, situation there, the music city center board votes.
They had an opioid funding vote, but really the one that really is, is the big piece of legislation, uh, is a deferral on the right turn on red legislation that initially the sponsor was Council Member Sandra Sepulveda, who sponsored a piece of legislation to outlaw all right turns on red over 700 intersections all across the USD, correct? Urban Services District.
you know me um and after some conversation certainly with council member cupin who is the downtown council member of course district 19.
it was reduced through conversation and through an amendment from 700 intersections to 59 intersections Now, you and I always have interesting reactions to the same thing.
I am of the belief that the Metro Council should be able to do more than one thing.
And I am of the belief that the Metro Council can look at a piece of legislation like, hey, let's shut down right turns on red in 59 extremely busy and dangerous intersections in downtown.
And let's just slow down cars and be more aware of pedestrians and also do all of their other jobs too.
I think that should be, you don't have to stop what you're doing on every other issue that the city needs to manage this, which according to the data, there were 22 injuries since the start of 2025.
One death is too many, but that is not a, what would you call that? An overwhelming crisis in the city? I would say it's not a crisis.
It's not a crisis in the city, but it is smart legislation that will make people safer.
It will make people safer because I don't know if you know this, but your head can't look two directions at once.
You can also do other things to help pedestrians in the city, which we'll get to in a moment.
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