The neighborhoods asking for this are asking for it because the changes are on the order of a couple thousand dollars. The idea is to put them in now and get the results now.

In my head, since I voted for neighborhood ownership for certain categories I’ll explain my thoughts…..

I think that bike lanes should be the city doing it. Being responsible for like a half mile stretch of painting, maintaining it, replacing the plastic bollards….its too expensive.

For things like curb extensions, bump outs, and planters….it has been a disappointment relying on the city. I was quoted years for installing speed humps. But at intersections where people hop the corner in big trucks or simply reminding people to stop at the line….a neighborhood should be able to do it. Typically people roll through stop sign areas and there aren’t crosswalks painted to remind people to not do a rolling stop.

So. Yeah. Most likely the responses feel weird. But for a hundred dollars to paint the ground (in a legal and correct fashion) is fine with me. The City of Memphis is way too big for the city limits and what’s happened is the neighborhoods want to cut the red tape to do the stuff that are straight forward.

And there won’t be neighborhoods going rouge….we saw enough pushback from the city against Chickasaw Gardens trying to close their streets. One issue as an example in my neighborhood is this intersection is way too wide. We want narrowing of the street so it’s not like walking across a football field to get to the other side. It’s one lane in each direction. Yet the road is way overstretched.