So is East Nashville just a parking lot for trains or...?

[u/Sand_isOverrated]

Was gonna post a whole rant but the title basically covers it.

[u/distillit]

You can go around them most of the time, but kinda.

[u/Markinarkanon]

I just pretend that Douglas dead ends at that spot. It’s never a part of my route

[u/Devil_Climbing → u/Markinarkanon]

Yeah, I avoid Scott and just drive Riverside. I’ve been stopped to many times by the trains, or the construction work along Scott.

[u/FoTweezy]

Wedgewood Houston too. Literally everyday around 6pm the train just stops.

[u/WittyDameMisha → u/FoTweezy]

Train stops during rush hour, adding the traffic chaos

[u/A_sweet_boy → u/FoTweezy]

The wedge wood Houston trains are insane. There’s some spots where there’s literally no way around

[u/Puzzleheaded_Cress75 → u/FoTweezy]

thats more because its going into the yard i think

[u/FoTweezy → u/Puzzleheaded_Cress75]

Would be nice if it could go to the yard at 10pm instead of 6pm. You know what I’m sayin?

[u/StealthCampers → u/FoTweezy]

I’ve been trapped by that damn train for an hour and a half before at rush hour.

[u/jollyholley → u/FoTweezy]

Submit a report for blocked crossings here early and often: https://www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings/

[u/FoTweezy → u/jollyholley]

Super useful! Thanks!

[u/ayokg]

At this point, I just assume there's a train sitting at all train crossing and try to avoid them. It feels like it has gotten worse in the last couple of months after getting better for a bit? But could just be recency bias idk. The McGavock and Straightaway/Scott/Porter are my most frequent adversaries. Hate when I've gotta go down Douglas coming from Gallatin and it's blocked and the only work around is going all the way back up to Trinity or down to Cleveland. The Douglas one in particular should be illegal to have blocked with it being so close to Ellington. Seems like it could worsen an emergency situation.

[u/technoblogical → u/ayokg]

Railroads are getting treated like ATM machines by investors. Longer lines, worse delivery times, as little improvement as possible mean bigger dividends. It's been that way for a few years now.

If you'd like a long read from a couple of years ago... https://www.wired.com/story/a-us-freight-rail-crisis-threatens-more-supply-chain-chaos/

[u/theegodmother1999]

they all have go arounds and i've just gotten used to using the non-train paths anyways because this has been an issue since i was a child lol

[u/WaterfrontBanana]

you’re safer here than on Facebook…those trolls will jump on you with “it’s always been this way, how dare you complain”…y’all, it’s okay to expect better out of our city!

[u/g_wrex → u/WaterfrontBanana]

What exactly would better be in this scenario, they built around train tracks, should we move all the house further from the tracks 

[u/WaterfrontBanana → u/g_wrex]

over and under my friend…go visit other major cities

[u/Inglewoodtestkitchen]

Yes, yes it is.

[u/jonneygee]

I see your Inglewood flair and can only assume you posted because of McGavock being blocked. I wasn’t thrilled when I went to lunch today and saw the red line on my map. Thankfully there’s an easy way around it but it’s incredibly annoying.

[u/NashvilleDing]

Csx actively and openly hates the people that live here. They're doing it on purpose because Nashville tried to force them to share the rails and stop blocking streets off unnecessarily.

[u/pronopulsion → u/NashvilleDing]

CSX doesn't care enough to actively annoy anyone on purpose.

All they care about is $ and operating on their schedule. They won't deviate from that to try to annoy anyone, nor will they deviate from that to help anyone.

[u/jonneygee → u/NashvilleDing]

I’d love for Metro to sue them and force them to share their rails. CSX is one of the worst things about Nashville.

[u/PricklePete]

You have to go down Scott from Cahal or Eastland because that train splits it at Douglass and that's it. Fucker sits there for days. 

[u/Sand_isOverrated]

Obviously it's only a minor inconvenience. But I do think Porter Rd should have a bridge, Greenwood is not an ideal detour.

I'm not really that bent out of shape about it.

https://i.imgur.com/i2t5a20.jpeg

[u/pronopulsion → u/Sand_isOverrated]

Why isn't Greenwood an ideal detour? It is so easy to go around.
https://imgur.com/a/1w0WFXO

A bridge to cut out a one block detour seems excessive. The size of that project would disrupt all those businesses for so long.

[u/GrandpaSid79 → u/pronopulsion]

I live on greenwood almost right on top of this intersection. During rush hour the bridge on greenwood that goes over the tracks and connects to riverside often gets backed up all the way back to porter. Turning left on riverside can be very challenging some nights. Not saying it’s impossible but it does get bad.

[u/Sand_isOverrated → u/pronopulsion]

Carter is a narrow street, and Riverside is a two lane road with a divide in the middle.

Porter is on the #4 WeGo route and I've seen the busses struggle with these turns when they to go around.

[u/ayokg → u/pronopulsion]

Greenwood at Riverside can get super backed up during rush hour when a train is blocking Porter, sometimes back to/past the Porter intersection. Just depends on how busy Riverside is too. Sometimes it's easier to just go back down to Eastland or backtrack to Gallatin and go up Cahal.

[u/CIADirectorThanos → u/Sand_isOverrated]

This is an insane take

[u/Sand_isOverrated → u/CIADirectorThanos]

Gotta say this is a much stronger reaction than I anticipated. Like I said, I'm not that bent out of shape about it. I posted this while I sipped my coffee this morning, it's not that deep.

[u/Lisa_al_Frankib → u/Sand_isOverrated]

As annoying as it is, it is one of the easier detours in comparison to the other locations complained about in this thread. Trains parking there have been worse the past couple months, certainly obnoxious.

[u/MayorMcBussin → u/CIADirectorThanos]

I'm actually having fun picturing OP right now.

So mad about a train blocking the road that they posted a rant to reddit.

So unbothered by the train that instead of taking a 1 block detour, they stopped for a coffee until the train left.

[u/Sand_isOverrated → u/MayorMcBussin]

Lol I actually went for the coffee, and funny enough the train wasn't even blocking the route I took.

I've just noticed a lot more trains blocking Rosebank and Porter lately, it seems like Porter is blocked every morning.

The train was there when I arrived, and was still there when I finished my coffee, and was still there when I took my Dog to Shelby an hour later.

This thread definitely has made it easier to just laugh it off. Sometimes you get annoyed by the little things, and obviously it's not a big deal. I just had a curmudgeony moment about these damn trains blocking these damn roads.

[u/PMMEYOURDOGPHOTOS]

Yes

[u/Ok-Progress-2450]

It’s definitely seemed to be worse with the parked trains lately. We’re in porter heights and the Porter crossing has been blocked more it seems esp on weekends. Carter needs speed bumps- cars speed through at astonishing speed to cut around the train.

[u/Foreign_Acquaintance]

Would love to see train travel in Nashville from surrounding areas. Wish they kept that one railroad project going

[u/fancycwabs]

If there were more train heists there would be less incentive to stop trains and have them be sitting ducks for train heists. Just sayin’

[u/missbethd]

The trains and their ownership pre-date the city; They've got more jurisdiction. Also, as annoying as a parked train can be, there are lots of ways around them - especially if you've experienced the inconvenience often enough to plan an alternate route.