Peter Bird

Biografía: Peter Bird is the Active Transportation Planner for the Metro Nashville Planning Department, and sits in the Multimodal Transportation Planning Division. He leads the planning, community engagement, and evaluation for Metro’s capital bikeway program; works on long-range transportation planning projects; and contributes to transportation policy work relating to active transportation needs. Before joining Metro in 2016, Peter lived in Denver, CO, where he worked in bicycle advocacy while completing his Master in Urban and Regional Planning degree at the University of Colorado Denver. In Nashville, Peter leads the planning, community engagement, and evaluation of the city’s capital bikeway program, consisting nearly $7 million in projects between 2017 and 2019. During that same time period, that funding has and continues to drive over 40 miles of total bikeway projects in Nashville. Given the often polarizing nature of “bike projects,” it has been a constant challenge to design and conduct community engagement—especially when projects are planned for gentrifying neighborhoods. Aside from these capital bikeway projects, Peter also led policy development for dockless micro-mobility providers, including bikes and scooters. Working on a small team of transportation planners in the Metro Nashville Planning Department, he works closely with incoming development projects to incorporate TDM, parking, and active transportation policies and designs into major development projects in Downtown Nashville, as well as the surrounding neighborhoods.