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Ludean Spears aboard the 243: Connecticut has the money.
Ludean Spears shelled out $68 for a monthly pass and another $48 for her daughter so they could return riding CT Transit buses Monday.
She wasn’t pleased.
by | Mar 19, 2021 9:54 am | Comments (5)
Jose Flores: It’s been a long wait.
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One possible design for new real-time info bus stop signs.
Downtown bus riders should soon have a better sense of when their rides will actually arrive, as the state prepares to roll out new digital signs with real-time information on where a bus is, and when it will get to a stop.
That’s one initiative planned among many in a state Department of Transportation (DOT) push to make New Haven’s beleaguered bus system easier and more enjoyable to use.
by | Mar 17, 2021 1:36 pm | Comments (1)
Numerous afternoon bus routes will not run as usual Wednesday afternoon to and from Downtown and Brookside, Lighthouse Point, Kimberly Square, City Point, Hamden, Cheshire, and Waterbury in the latest of ongoing CT Transit cancelations.
Continue reading ‘This Afternoon’s 11 CT Transit Bus Cancelations’
by | Mar 10, 2021 6:39 pm | Comments (10)
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Alehya Moseley at the bus stop: What about back-up drivers?
A sudden surge of drivers calling in sick led to ten more cancelations of New Haven bus routes— and riders changing their plans to adjust.
by | Oct 16, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (12)
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Buccitti: State “putting dollars ahead of human life.”
Bus drivers have begun opening the front doors to allow passengers to enter and pay their fares again — and many feel unprotected against catching the coronavirus.
by | Jan 10, 2020 1:16 pm | Comments (14)
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Rush hour on the Whalley bus.
Roland Lemar predicts that 2020 will be the year that the state stops talking and starts acting to fix New Haven’s broken bus system — by ante-ing up an initial $23.2 million.
by | Nov 21, 2019 7:43 pm | Comments (26)
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In transit near the Green.
How much might it cost to fix New Haven’s broken public bus system?
According to one years-in-the-making, state-funded transit study, roughly $15.5 million in capital improvements and another $7.7 million in annual operating funds would go a long way towards crafting a more frequent, reliable, and rational local transportation system.
by | Jun 17, 2019 3:07 pm | Comments (23)
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Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz and Gov. Ned Lamont board the Hartford Line at Union Station, check in with passengers (below).
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Local, state, and federal officials descended on New Haven Monday to celebrate the “resounding success” of a year-old commuter rail line that connects New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield.
They also said that a decade-in-the-works bus study is almost complete, and that long-awaited local transit improvements should be coming … sometime soon?
Continue reading ‘Train Progress Hailed; Buses? “Stay Tuned”’
by | Nov 29, 2018 9:08 am | Comments (10)
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150 Sargent Dr.: Tough to reach by bus or by foot.
Claudette Kidd of Mothers & Others for Justice testifies Wednesday.
Can these doctors, lawyers, and health CEOs solve a public transit problem? From right to left at Wednesday’s hearing: YNHH VP Jennifer Wilcox, Fair Haven Community Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, Cornell Scott-Hill Health CEO Michael Taylor, Yale School of Medicine Associate Dean Stephen Huot.
Given New Haven’s broken bus system, how would car-less New Haveners get to a new primary care center planned for Long Wharf?
Yale-New Haven Hospital and the city’s two community health centers will have to answer that question over the next two weeks to win state permission to transform the way that New Haven’s poor get medical care.
Continue reading ‘Primary Plan’s Obstacle: Broken Bus System’
by | Oct 25, 2018 8:30 am | Comments (41)
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Rush hour on bus formerly known as the B, now the 243.
Farwell: Don’t ditch Green.
After riding New Haven’s broken bus system for a month and interviewing 5,000 riders, state officials recommend new crosstown routes, transfer mini-hubs, bus-priority traffic lights, fewer stops, and express routes. A crowd Wednesday night weighed in.
by | Jun 8, 2018 11:59 am | Comments (2)
Riding CT Transit daily always provides unique and extraordinary experiences, some positive, some negative. Each bus or bus ride has a personality unto itself; no two rides are ever the same.
by | Nov 16, 2017 2:13 pm | Comments (3)
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Rush hour on the late-running bus known formerly as the B, now as the 243.
The investigators slipped into town, tracked down the target — then returned to home base to plan how to thwart an “unstable” and “corrupted” Internet foe.
Continue reading ‘Gov’t Team’s Target: “3rd-Party Lock-Ups”’
by | Nov 9, 2017 8:54 am | Comments (7)
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A crew from the state Department of Transportation is heading to New Haven to ride the bus — and see how to make it easier to catch the bus.
Continue reading ‘State Dispatches Team To Smoke Out Bus-App Flaw’
by | Nov 3, 2017 12:19 pm | Comments (8)
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Rush hour on bus formerly known as the B, now the 243.
Kill a bus route to North Branford that has only 38 riders a day. Eliminate bus stops that are too close together. Create more connection hubs and crosstown bus options instead of forcing everyone to go through the New Haven Green.
A new “mobility” study puts into play those and other potential fixes for New Haven’s beleaguered bus system.
by | Oct 11, 2017 4:18 pm | Comments (4)
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The D … er, the 212 bus stops at the Green Wednesday.
The D bus has not run late all week and never will again.
The 212 bus? That could be a different story.
by | Oct 4, 2017 7:55 am | Comments (8)
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ATU’s Jerry Pizunski explains blindspot problem with bus rearview mirrors.
CT Transit bus drivers rallied on the New Haven Green Tuesday to demand better bus design and more safety features. They left the Green with a commitment from management to meet later this week about how to make buses safer.
by | Sep 22, 2017 4:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Paris and Pelaggi: Not connecting.
Doug Hausladen was ready for a victory ride on a CT Transit bus — until the app he succeeded in lobbying for had other ideas.
by | Sep 11, 2017 2:35 pm | Comments (8)
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Ojakian at Monday’s press conference.
A new program that allows students at 16 state universities and community colleges to take unlimited train and bus rides for a small fee paid to their university could be a boon for transit riders throughout Connecticut.
by | Jun 20, 2017 2:36 pm | Comments (0)
After the clock struck midnight, the B bus was cruising west down Whalley Avenue past the Boulevard when riders started noticing a foul smell.
by | Jan 9, 2017 3:45 pm | Comments (3)
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Rush-hour B3: 20 minutes late, crammed, no word to riders.
Never mind the late and too-few buses. Why is it proving so hard for the state to put workable GPS systems on its buses to communicate with waiting riders?
by | Jan 9, 2017 2:06 pm | Comments (16)
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Proposed changes for a rapid O bus route.
A CT Transit ride from New Haven to Milford’s Post Mall could take 11 minutes less than it does now under a plan contained in a draft state study — but it will take new buses, additional technology and nearly $5.3 million to get it done.
by | Jan 2, 2017 9:05 am | Comments (16)
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Rush-hour B3: 20 minutes late, crammed, no word to riders.
Now they’re saying: Maybe February.
by | Nov 23, 2016 1:04 pm | Comments (13)
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The B3, rush hour: 20 minutes late, crammed, no word to riders.
The state has finally put GPS devices on most New Haven public buses. They just don’t work yet.
by | Nov 19, 2016 6:44 pm | Comments (1)
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The B3, Thursday, 5:35 p.m.: late as usual (by 20 minutes), overcrowded.
From about 5 p.m. on I was waiting at the New Haven Walmart for the bus to come. A bunch of us waiting were from Bella Vista. The driver was nearly 20 minutes late, and it was getting cold.
by and | Dec 29, 2014 9:15 am | Comments (0)
If your bus is late — at least soon you’ll be able to know it.
That’s one improvement among others that CT Transit officials promise are on the way for New Haven’s buses. Riders — and potential riders who stay away — say improvements can’t come too soon.