HERMITAGE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Speeding on one Hermitage road has gotten so bad, a Metro elected official is asking police to send more officers that way.

Metro Councilmember Jordan Huffman has been working on getting traffic calming measures along Jacksonian Drive for a while.

In the short term, he's requested the Metro Nashville Police Department to patrol the area, so residents may notice more motorcycle units along that road in the coming weeks.

However, Huffman says there needs to be a long-term plan.

He believes the road should go through Metro's traffic-calming program and says tools like a stop sign at Jacksonian and Bonnacreek drives would be beneficial because most crashes happen at that intersection.

Huffman told News 2 the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure has denied his request for the program twice.

"Jacksonian does not qualify for traffic calming, which would get certain things such as the speed cushions, due to it being a collector street. Per NDOT, they would 'disintegrate over time,' so you couldn't put them there. So, Jacksonian is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place as far as finding a solution," Huffman said,

Huffman says he can’t initiate the application for the traffic calming program as a councilmember, but he can advocate strongly for it once submitted.

NDOT will open its next application window in September, and Huffman is encouraging all nearby residents to apply.

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