About Walk Bike Nashville

Since 1998, Walk Bike Nashville has advocated for a more walkable, bikeable, and livable city. We want our streets, sidewalks, and bikeways to support multimodal commuting options, active living, and recreational opportunities.

Learn more about our advocacy, join our community, and explore other events at walkbikenashville.org.

Event History

Cyclists enjoy the 12South Open Streets event on October 30, 2016

Bogotá, Colombia hosted the world's first Open Street in 1974. The idea was simple: They'd close down three miles of a major road to cars so there was more room for people to enjoy their streets. They called the event "ciclovía" after the Spanish word for "cycleway."

The idea caught on in a big way, spreading to cities across the world. Here in the South, residents in Louisville, Atlanta, and Charlotte have adopted Open Streets-style programs into the fabric of their civic life. 

Walk Bike Nashville hosted the city's first Open Street in The Gulch in 2015, and since then, we’ve helped people from neighborhoods all across Nashville claim our largest public spaces, our streets, as their space to enjoy. Open Streets can be big and flashy — ask the mariachi band on Antioch Pike or the line dancing crew on Arthur Avenue — but they’re also places where families set up picnic chairs to lounge around, kids zig and zag on their bikes without worrying about dangerous car traffic, and neighbors bump into neighbors.

See recap videos from past Open Streets here.