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10/19/2026

Chattanooga - Please keep the family and friends of Cendora Beard in your prayers as you start your weeks. Media reports indicate she was the 67-year old involved in the Friday night hit-and-run that took her life. She is survived by her son Ta**us, who works as a chef at Bea’s Restaurant. There is a Go Fund Me (link provided in comments) to help cover the funeral expenses.

This was a hit and run. The driver, as we understand it, has not yet been identified. If anyone has details, we hope you will get in touch with law enforcement as soon as possible.

Please pray for justice for this family.

It was a really tough weekend in Chattanooga.

A Chattanooga restaurant is asking the community to support their head chef Ta**us after his mother was fatally hit by a car in a hit-and-run incident on W. 38th street. Bea’s Restaurant has started a GoFundMe to help cover funeral expenses while police continue to search for the driver.

10/19/2026

Please keep these individuals in your thoughts. We wish them both a speedy recovery, and that the driver is held responsible to the fullest extent. We encourage the media to keep a pulse on these types of stories, too, as some injuries linger long after crashes happen and sometimes conditions worsen. Becoming a Vision Zero city will mean a paradigm shift in how we respond as a community.

Chattanooga police arrested a man for hitting two pedestrians at 309 E. Main Street. One victim suffered serious injuries, the other minor. The driver, tested for sobriety, failed and faces charges including aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

10/07/2026

October is Pedestrian Safety Month around our country. It also carries another weight to it in Chattanooga. It highlights one Chattanooga story that needs to be told and remembered.

5 years ago today, things changed for 5 out-of-towners visiting Chattanooga for a planning conference. Only 4 of those visitors are alive today. The life of Kemberli Sargent - a Vision Zero Manager for ATLDOT - was taken several months later after succumbing to injuries due to driver recklessness.

5 years later, we have policies. We have a driver that’s in prison for 5 years, after a final settlement in court just last week. And today, we have a street just been paved by a state agency with wider lanes than it deserves. Wider lanes that will no doubt bring additional risks to others.

Instead of getting mad about that, today we need to honor someone we never met. We tell you a story in numbers. Because today, we need to see those policies in action. We need to see it sooner than 2050, a goal that’s 24 years away.

Today, as everyone goes about their days, we hope you’ll take a moment to consider what makes your streets safer. We hope you’ll take a moment to think on one of so many lives we’ve lost on Chattanooga’s streets.

We know we won’t soon be forgetting. We are more emboldened to keep fighting, but we need your help to do it. This is your call to action.

10/04/2026

Yep…the beloved Walnut Street Bridge is back, baby! It received quite the glow-up after its 18-month refurbishment. We celebrate this connectivity and the effort it took to bring one of our City’s most diverse public spaces back to life once more. We’ve all missed it these last 18-months, and we thank the tireless efforts of City of Chattanooga, City of Chattanooga Department of Public Works and Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors!

What you might not know is that the spaces next to the bridge weren’t always this way. They’ve evolved for people from decades of work. You may know the story: The bridge once served cars and trollies, yet closed in 1978 for structural issues. It didn’t reopen until 1993 when dedicated community efforts brought it back to life as a pedestrian bridge. But even in 2003, the plaza next to the bridge was still a cul-de-sac. The spaces around it were designed like a freeway until the City’s 21st Century Waterfront efforts around 2006. In 2018, Walnut Street was finally given a makeover to become a shared street. These types of streets are called woonerfs - a term derived from the Dutch for a “living street” - spaces where travel modes are blurred, curbs are absent, and drivers naturally drive slower and more cautiously. “Cars by invite”: these streets are intentionally people-centered.

In the three decades since the bridge reopened, the spaces and places have truly become much more people-centered and now serve as a hub of civic life. It brings all walks of life to our riverfront.

When we look around our City, we see other streets and places that are ripe with opportunity. Chances to connect our community. Ways to make streets safer and meet basic mobility needs. We see opportunities to rethink how we prioritize our finite urban conditions. And we see some neighborhoods getting left behind while waiting on capital projects further from downtown.

It doesn’t need to be costly. It doesn’t need to be dramatic. Just change that moves the needle incrementally back toward people’s safety.

What do you see, Chattanooga? What spaces and places would you change for safety?

10/01/2026

Simple concept. Simple post. A not so distant throwback to Veterans Bridge in 2023.

Because oftentimes, one less lane means more opportunities for something else. More space for comfort and safety. More space for all abilities. More space for people.

09/26/2026

We’re always thankful for any of our City’s Play Streets. It reminds that streets are for everyone. Thanks to Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors and Outdoor Chattanooga for giving us the chance to see that - even for a day.

This Play Street has a special meaning. Not only on National Public Lands Day, but also the very place where the street was activated with play.

20 years ago, it didn’t look like this.

What streets would you reimagine?

09/26/2026

09/24/2026

Another Throwback Thursday! These bridge sunrises! 🌅🤌😍

For years before the 2025 closure of the Walnut Street Bridge, there were the Bridge Muffins. A small group with multimodal mindsets would gather almost every Friday for coffee and something tasty. It was community. Sadly, like many things, the pandemic threw a curveball in 2020. Gatherings became less frequent. Some moved away. Life got busy. But with the reopening on the horizon, will we see a return?

We can’t wait for the reopening of Walnut Street Bridge on October 3! Will you be there?

Any post about this bridge deserves special thanks to City of Chattanooga - Government, Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors & CHAPublicWorks for their hard work giving Walnut Street Bridge its glow-up! It was a long 18-months without it, but keeping the transformation on schedule is a tremendous feat. A huge thanks to those managing this project!

09/22/2026

Chattanooga - Please send your thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of yet another victim. No one knows all the circumstances to these tragedies, but we know they are sadly happening all too often on our roadways. We also know the context of the built environment and the very street design itself play a role in determining the safety of a street. Shallowford Road is known for its ferocity, especially on the section between Lee Highway and Jenkins where this crash occurred. It is also known that people use these streets for their sidewalks and their transit. In the last 3 years alone, this is the third crash involving a person walking on the 7400 to 7600 blocks of Shallowford Road. Of the three, this is the first we're aware of in the same time frame that involved a fatality on the blocks between Gunbarrel Road and Murray Lane.

If design is a determinant for a safer street, this street fails. When it was widened in 2013-2014, the roadway was constructed with 12' and 13' travel lanes. That's at least as wide - if not wider in spots - than lane widths observed on nearby I-75. The road quickly tapers from 5 to 3 lanes by Murray Lane. It gives drivers additional room to speed if traveling west, or to jockey for a lane traveling east. The design of this roadway does very little to promote slower speeds and driver attentiveness.

CPD Investigating Deadly Crash Involving a Pedestrian on Shallowford Road

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Chattanooga Police Department (CPD) is investigating a crash that resulted in a pedestrian's death Monday afternoon.

At approximately 11:00 a.m., CPD's Traffic Unit responded to a crash involving a pedestrian in the 7500 block of Shallowford Road. Preliminary findings indicate the pedestrian, a 65-year-old woman, was attempting to cross the road and stepped in front of a vehicle. The driver attempted to swerve, but still hit the pedestrian.

Hamilton County EMS responded and transported the woman to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.

This information is preliminary and subject to change as the investigation continues. Chattanooga Police ask anyone with information regarding this incident to call 423-698-2525.