Nashville PD Will Staff Traffic Plan For Saturday's Mass Vaccination Event At Nissan Stadium

From the City of Nashville:

March 19, 2021

MNPD officers will be staffing the traffic plan for Saturday’s day-long drive-thru COVID vaccination event at Nissan Stadium during which 10,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are expected to be administered to those who have made appointments (all appointments are full for Saturday).

Traffic Pattern

Vehicles will enter Nissan Stadium’s Lot A from Woodland Street. The preferred interstate exit for vehicles coming from the north will be the I-24 North 1st Street exit. The preferred exit for vehicles coming from the south will be the I-24 James Robertson Parkway exit. Message boards will be in place just prior to both exits.

Vehicles arriving via Shelby Avenue can use Victory Lane to Titans Way and go around the stadium to get to Woodland Street.

All vehicles will exit the stadium lot after a 15-minute post-vaccination observation/recovery period on Interstate Drive and will be directed to Shelby Avenue.

Officers will be operating the traffic signals from control boxes to help vehicle flow.

Appointments Only

There will be several message boards and signs to remind everyone that those coming for a vaccination must have an appointment. Officers will not check for appointments on the street. The vetting will take place inside Lot A by Health Department personnel. If someone comes into the lot without an appointment, an officer will direct them out of the area onto Russell Street and to Interstate Drive.

Non-Event Traffic

Traffic unrelated to the mass vaccination event may continue to use Woodland Street and Shelby Avenue to travel between East Nashville and downtown. These roads and their bridges will remain open.

Road Closures

South 2nd Street between Woodland Street & Victory Lane;

Russell Street between S. 1st Street & Interstate Drive;

No Northbound Traffic allowed on Interstate Drive from Shelby Avenue.

This press release was produced by the City of Nashville. The views expressed here are the author’s own.