Gallatin Pike Repaving Starts Choose How You Move

The East Nashville corridor is among the first slated for pedestrian and bicycle safety upgrades under the city's transit plan.

Updated on Nov. 12, 2026 in Financial Planning

Freshly repaved urban road with a white bike-lane stripe and raised curb, lined by mature street trees and low red-brick buildings under soft overcast light. — Nashville is repaving Gallatin Pike in East Nashville as the first step of its Choose How You Move plan to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety on the historic corridor. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

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Gallatin Pike, a busy car-oriented corridor running through some of Nashville's most historic East Nashville neighborhoods, is being repaved as the first step of Choose How You Move. The project is among the first corridors slated for improvements under the plan.

Why it matters

The stated goal is to upgrade pedestrian and bicycle safety and make the corridor more reliable for everyone who uses it. The corridor was not engineered for pedestrians, so the changes mark a shift in how Nashville plans its streets for residents in East Nashville and across the city.

The corridor is roughly 2,000 feet long where Main Street becomes Gallatin Pike, according to the planning stub. Capp's roughly 20-year estimate for a pedestrian-friendly future is a projection, and the timeline for the individual upgrades has not been set.

The players

Clay Capp

Clay Capp is the Metro Nashville District 6 councilman whose district includes Gallatin Pike, and he has spoken publicly about re-engineering the corridor.

Choose How You Move

Choose How You Move is Nashville's transit and mobility program that designates Gallatin Pike as a mixed transit corridor for upgrades.

Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home

Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home is a longtime East Nashville business that has operated on the corridor since 1932.

The details

Gallatin Pike lines some of Nashville's most historic neighborhoods and has a long history in East Nashville, having been served by horse and buggy, then streetcars, then cars. Capp said the street is not a place many people walk down and that it can be re-engineered, and a large development is planned at Gallatin Road and Douglas Avenue.

Generations past: horse and buggy, then streetcars, then cars used the corridor.
1932: Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home began operating in East Nashville.
Current: Gallatin Pike is being repaved as Choose How You Move begins.
Within 20 years: Capp's estimate for a pedestrian-friendly future on the corridor.

Market Landscape

Gallatin Pike's repaving is the first concrete step under Choose How You Move, placing one of East Nashville's historic car corridors on a path toward mixed transit use. The project shows how Nashville is starting to reshape older arterial roads designed mainly for automobiles.

Residents who drive, walk, or bike on Gallatin Pike should expect repaving work as the first phase of the program. The corridor is not yet designed for pedestrians, so near-term changes for walkers and cyclists remain to be defined.

The takeaway

Road projects that change how a corridor moves people often take years to reach completion, so residents along Gallatin Pike can track the repaving and later pedestrian upgrades as they are scheduled.