A split decision

There are Nashville street segments that no one could imagine radically altering, including those in East Nashville's Five Points (with its restaurants, bars and historic homes) and at the Music Row roundabout, where the nine nude figures of Musica cavort.

In contrast, nobody's list of attractive streetscapes would include the point at which Harding Pike splits into Highway 70 and Highway 100 and motorists going to and from West Davidson County's booming suburbs funnel through a vehicle-heavy and unwieldy V intersection.