Neighborhood Traffic Safety

Neighborhood Coordinator

Debbie Sharp
[email protected]
(865) 215-3232

400 Main St., Room 546
Knoxville, TN 37902

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SAVE LIVES WITH 25
Mayor speaking on Save Lives with 25 Save Lives with 25 In December 2021, City Council voted to reduce the speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour on any street where a specific speed limit is not posted. This change will go in effect on July 1, 2022.





The Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program (NTSP) is currently being redesigned in hopes of improving the experience for those that apply in the future. In doing so, the City hopes to create a more sustainable program. The NTSP was more popular that the city could have imagined, and there was not enough funding to meet the demand. Groups participating in the old program should be completed by the end of 2026. 

The waitlist for the redesigned Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program has closed. Those that are currently on the waitlist will be notified as soon as the program has been redesigned and there is funding to support more projects.

Since the former NTSP closed, the City hired Cannon and Cannon, Inc. to complete a comparative analysis of a number of peer cities with characteristics similar to Knoxville regarding their current neighborhood traffic safety programs. The goal of this analysis was to provide program development services for the City of Knoxville’s NTSP. Transportation Engineering has received the comparative analysis from Cannon and Cannon, and is using the information provided to redesign the new program.

Please check back in early 2026 to see if the City is ready to publish the new program process. 

DO NOT FILL OUT AN OLD NTSP APPLICATION OR COLLECT ANY PETITION SIGNATURES ON THE OLD FORMS. THESE APPLICATIONS AND PETITION SIGNATURES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.