田纳西州 Nashville 撤下红灯右转禁令法案: 交通局先行在部分路口实施
田纳西州 Nashville 市议会审议多时的红灯右转禁令法案已被撤回，改为由市交通局（NDOT）自行推行。原法案要求在全市近200平方英里的城市服务区内所有路口禁止红灯右转，后来的替代版本将范围缩小到市中心核心区与学校周边约60个路口，但法案自9月中旬以来多次被推迟。
法案主要提案人、第30选区市议员 Sandra Sepulveda 在10月19日的委员会会议上表示，她与交通局官员的会谈富有成效，双方已就具体的实施计划达成一致，无需再通过立法推进。按照交通局的计划，调整将在未来两周内先行落地：交通局发言人10月21日澄清，首批13个受影响路口中，7个路口将正式禁止红灯右转，其余路口先行实施行人优先通行间隔改造，其中一个路口两项措施同时实施，规模远小于原法案设想。
Sepulveda 表示，归根结底这是在拯救生命，保护行人与骑行者，城市会因此变得更好。交通局同时表示，后续还将继续研究全县其他路口的行人安全改善方案。
Nashville, Tennessee Scraps Right-on-Red Ban Bill: Transportation Department to Roll Out Ban at Select Intersections
A high-profile bill to ban right turns on red in Nashville, Tennessee, has been withdrawn from the Metro Council, and the Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT) will roll out the ban itself instead. The original bill would have eliminated right turns on red at every intersection throughout Nashville's nearly 200-square-mile Urban Services District, while a scaled-back substitute version focused on about 60 intersections mostly in the downtown core and near school zones. The bill had been repeatedly deferred since mid-September.
The bill's main sponsor, District 30 Council Member Sandra Sepulveda, told colleagues at an October 19 committee meeting that a productive meeting with NDOT officials paved the way for the department to advance a concrete implementation plan without legislation. Under the rollout over the next two weeks, a department spokesperson clarified on October 21, right turns on red will be banned at seven of the first 13 affected intersections, while the others will initially receive leading pedestrian interval improvements, which give pedestrians a head start entering crosswalks; one intersection will receive both.
"We are saving lives at the end of the day," Sepulveda said. "We are going to save pedestrians and we are going to save cyclists, and the city is going to be better off." NDOT also plans continued study of pedestrian safety improvements at other intersections throughout the county.
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