At the moment of this video SMI and Bristol Motor Speedway are working on a deal with the city of Nashville to renovate the famed Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and hopefully bring NASCAR back to one of the world’s oldest tracks. Through this there have been many who have come out in support of this from the community surrounding the racetrack. While that is a huge positive, there also have been a very small but very vocal minority that want the track flat out GONE. This is where the newest “proposal” in the Cumberland Yard comes in, the dumbest anti-NASCAR “proposal” that we need to talk about
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Are you excited for the eventual return of NASCAR to the Nashville Fairgrounds?
Yes.
I’m interested to see how the racing will be, though it is hard for me to have an opinion because I only started watching in 2019. Though, I am excited for NASCAR to race there.
Yes sir!
Yes please!!
Yes
Not even an urbanist would want this and they’re about walkable and liveable cities with good public transit.
Just build a public park outside with a view of the entire track in a way that can mitigate noise and enhance the experience.
They could have done that in Fontana, but no…
You know this thing isn’t legitimate when the main account is blocking the people ratioing their stupid proposal.
What, you mean your first instinct when you have a great idea *isn’t* to silence all criticism because there’s no possible way you could be wrong?
Welcome to 2023, where no one wants to hear criticism
@CocaColaDude98 or criticisms are taken as an insult.
you just know it’s ran by people who complan about people watching sports,
@91Vaxxene “Real Sports” as said by Hemingway
“Nascar wont follow the noise ordinances! So lets put huge concerts there instead, because rockstars DEFINITELY care about our noise ordinances!”
That’s on the same level of logic as cutting down trees that take in CO2 so they can install a windmill farm to produce energy that puts off less CO2. It’s a lateral move.
If they want to address the noise issue, then why even suggest the concert?
And Country Musicians/Bands as well do care about Noise. No what these people are against is no fun, probably trying to limit it to only Christian Country/Country Gospel people only who are forcing their beliefs Via a cult pert of a political party onto the rest of the USA. Same people who think that the 18th amendment needs to be brought back and banning all drugs including good one like some extreme cult Scientologist/Mormon that think if it is not in the bible/book of Mormon then it should not exist.
Rock stars? What rockstars in this age?
Let those anti-NASCAR Karens cry all they want. They’ll never get their way if the mayor of Nashville is smart.
They should just leave the city
If Nashville actually goes through with tearing down this track, and replacing it with a venue that causes even more noise than a race would, Nashville Tennessee will officially be a city I will NEVER visit again.
A venue that will obviously become a new crackland for junkies in less than a month
@Knight of the Nine Exactly.
It used to be music city
As a Nashville resident, I fully support the fairgrounds and I hate the people who protest it with a burning passion.
It’s like building your house next to a airport then having the air port shut down calls it’s to loud.
Same with the train they could try and either get the track closed or moved. They should have know that if you live next or near a racetrack airport, or railroad track, you’re going to have noise to some degree.
@Stephen Holloway I live in a small farming community in Central Indiana, thare was a big stink about a land developer who bought up all this land to build a big housing gaited community thing. All big expensive houses. Any way one hog farmer refused to sell they built any way right next to him then had the county try and shut him down they couldn’t. Eventually he was paid off or they used eminent domain or something calls his farms gone now and the addition is gone. It was the same thing though, these people bought houses next to a hog farm and bitched about the smell. I literally live in a town of a few thousand it was a big deal hear lol. My graduation class was only 150.
Calls?
@Stephen Hollowayor a highway or dock yard, or anything to do with machinery.
@kingkoopa64 That as well but my point is that if you move to an area with an noisy reputation or area then either deal with it or rethink your moving options.
“Drag strip for electric vehicles only” is a really fuggin’ good way to waste millions of dollars and be closed within three months. I have never heard of a larger boneheaded decision.
Who came up with this?
These people lives on neverland, i swear to god they are disconnected from reality.
@Arthur Passeri yup. EVs. The dynamic duo of motoring boredom, along with the fuggin’ V6s.
I bet they are the same sort of people who pushed for Vegas GP last week.
@Razor Not to mention, they’re not as environmentally friendly as people like to believe. In fact, in some ways, they’re worse than gas-powered vehicles.
It’s worse when the group is constantly lying and threatening to report NASCAR fans for “harassment”
Exactly
Because in their eyes constructive criticism is “harassment”
Well they deserve every second of harassment for moving there and then complaining about.
@Tylnorton they deserve all that for BEING BORN that way
Just looking at it you can tell that it wasn’t designed by anyone who’s ever seen a drag strip before given that there’s no features from an actual drag strip. It’s so obviously a diversion
I’m a NASCAR OG! Been a fan since the 1960’s! The return to Nashville is a great idea and will do tremendous good for the sport! The best thing we as fans can do is support BMI and their plan!
Definitely looked to me like something that was being thrown out there to demolish the track first and maybe build something someday second.
I saw this quote by them that said “we need to help Nashville reimagine a space that has been held hostage for so long by a concept that we feel is outdated” I don’t care if this is a diversion or not it just shows how out of touch with reality they are.
I heard somewhere that it’s the second oldest racetrack in America. If that’s true, than get the Governor of Tennessee to make it a state historic site. That would help preserve it. Also, I was at the Nashville Superspeedway for the Cup race this year and the place was packed. I had to wait awhile for the parking lot to clear up before I could leave. There was a guy from Scotland seated next to me in the grandstand who said that he wanted to see NASCAR for himself while he was in the states. (He said that he normally watches F1 and that NASCAR would air very late at night over there.) With this much attendence and even international attention for NASCAR in the Nashville area, than surely the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway can be a great attraction too.
It’s an historic site. End of story.
Personally, I like the idea of a multi-purpose dirt track, which can be used for both classic nascar races and also horse racing. You’d just need to implement careful maintenance between events. Thats what I think should be done with a lot of the classic short tracks that would otherwise be a little cramped for modern cars.
Note: I’m not necessarily talking about this track in particular, but rather the older tracks which have fallen into disrepair.
The Cumberland Yard proposal sounds like the Greenway initiative in Santa Cruz, California. Special interest groups wanted the rail line from Watsonville to Davenport railbanked and replaced with a bike trail. The proposal was vehemently supported by a special interest group called Trail Now, who engaged in many of the same tactics as the Cumberland Yard people. The one obstacle to the plan was Roaring Camp Railroads, a popular heritage railroad that operates a line from Felton to Santa Cruz (as well as a narrow gauge line up Bear Mountain in Felton), which is considered a common carrier line due to having hauled freight in the past, and therefore the Surface Transportation Board would side with Roaring Camp in the inevitable litigation due to the fact they would be isolated from the national network.
Unlike the Cumberland Yard plan, which has been laughed at by the fairgrounds at every turn, Greenway came dangerously close to succeeding. They managed to infiltrate loyalists into the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, who began plotting behind closed doors with Trail Now and their leader, Brian Peoples, to file for the adverse abandonment of the line to Felton. Word of this leaked out, however, and both Roaring Camp and the public were outraged.
Numerous public agencies voiced opposition to the Greenway plan. In response, Brian Peoples engaged in an aggressive misinformation campaign on Facebook, portraying Roaring Camp’s CEO as a greedy daddy’s girl (since she is the daughter of Roaring Camp’s founder) who scams taxpayers and abuses common carrier privileges to run an “amusement park ride” over state highways. Brian even publicly plotted to replace the Beach Train (as it is popularly known) with rubber-tire trolleys while ripping up Roaring Camp’s tracks to extend the trail to Felton. Brian claims he is an advocate for better options for cyclists, but in reality, he is an unhinged NIMBY who genuinely hates trains and is also anti-vax.
The Greenway plan made it far enough to appear on the June primary ballot as Measure D, with Brian smugly assuming it would win. And then the results came in:
70% voted…
*NO*
Greenway had been defeated. Trail Now engaged in increasingly-unhinged narratives, convinced their goals were still achievable. Then it came out that Trail Now wasn’t a pro-cyclist group, but a real-estate scheme to bulldoze the rail line and allow Brian’s out-of-state developers build housing on the right-of-way.
As someone who loves trains and especially loves the Roaring Camp RR, im appalled by this. This is just fraud AND defamation to an extreme level
All of this is making me think of what happened to Myrtle Beach Speedway. That track was torn down for a shopping district that never came to be, and now that patch of land is empty. I’m certain you can hear the ghosts of the past echoing across that plot, if you listen carefully. Let’s make sure nothing like that ever happens again. Hold fast and hold firm Nashville!
Yeah the people who want to do this aren’t from Nashville. As a life long resident of Tennessee, 45 minutes from Nashville, I’ve grown to despise a majority of people that have moved here in the last few years who seem hell bent on changing everything about this place, especially the Fairgrounds. I wish those developers nothing but the worst.