Nashville breaks ground on first Choose How You Move Complete Street as Nolensville Pike planning begins

Nashville has broken ground on its first Choose How You Move Complete Street, marking a construction-phase milestone for the city’s voter-approved transportation program.

The July 8 groundbreaking came shortly after the Nolensville Pike All-Access Corridor entered project development on June 26. The two actions put separate parts of the program at different stages: the Complete Street has reached groundbreaking, while the Nolensville Pike effort remains in planning and development ahead of engineering and construction.

Two projects at different stages

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County lists the July 8 event as the first groundbreaking for a Choose How You Move Complete Street. The available city materials do not identify the project’s cost, construction completion date or specific street location.

For Nolensville Pike, the city says its initial scope will fund two to three years of project development before the work advances to engineering and construction. Entering project development does not mean the corridor is under construction.

The official announcement does not specify the corridor’s route limits, final design, property impacts or a construction timetable. It also does not identify closures or service changes associated with either milestone.

Program moves beyond voter approval

Choose How You Move was approved by 66% of Nashville voters in 2024 and is funded through a dedicated half-cent sales surcharge. The city describes its 2026 priorities as a major citywide wave of transit and infrastructure improvements.

Those priorities include transit-service improvements, smart signals, sidewalk construction, Complete Streets projects and All-Access Corridors. The July groundbreaking and Nolensville Pike development milestone are early implementation steps within that wider program, rather than evidence that all of its planned improvements are complete.

Complete Streets and corridor projects are intended to be part of the program’s multimodal infrastructure work, alongside transit and sidewalk investments. The materials released by the city do not provide projected ridership, congestion or safety results for the two latest milestones.

What comes next

The next known timetable applies to Nolensville Pike: two to three years of initial project development before engineering and construction. Nashville’s transportation program page identifies the June and July actions among its 2026 progress updates, but does not set a final completion date for the first Complete Street or the Nolensville Pike corridor.

For residents and travelers along Nolensville Pike, the immediate change is the start of project development, not a completed corridor upgrade. Additional city decisions will be needed to establish engineering details, construction timing and any future effects on access or travel during construction.