June 13, 2024
Planning Commission meeting

Public Comments

1 Comments
X ZIP Code
Case Number
Name
Comment
Attachment
On Behalf Of
Date ▼
8-A-22-OA
Charity
37923
8-A-22-OA
Charity (37923), June 6, 2023 at 2:28 PM
I live in West Knoxville and I am unable to drive. I moved to this area because it was close to a KAT bus stop. That bus line was discontinued 6 months after I moved in. Now, to catch the bus, I need to walk down Kingston Pike. Coming from Nashville, it is strange to me that there are bus stops without safe walking paths. I also live within walking distance of a grocery store, my dentist, several restaurants and businesses, and the Ten Mile Creek Greenway. However, I cannot get to most of them safely. I risk my life every time I want to catch the bus at WalMart because there is no safe way to cross Kingston Pike at Walker Springs. I have to walk through my neighbor's yard and through business parking lots because there is no sidewalk. In some areas, you literally cannot walk anywhere unless you want to walk on Kingston Pike because where sidewalks could be, are large, sharp rocks. It is almost as if this area was purposefully designed so that no one can walk. As a disabled person, it makes me feel very unwelcome here. It sounds that the exemption of these rules for Kingston Pike west of Bearden Road is because of previous poor infrastructure design. How will anything improve if we allow past failures to prevent positive change? See attached PDF for images.
View Attachment
https://agenda.knoxplanning.org/attachments/20230606142849.pdf
June 6, 2023
at 2:28 PM