by | Dec 10, 2024 4:29 pm | Comments (12)
19 locations for red light and speed cameras.
After more than six months of compiling data on speeding, red light running, and local “roadway geometry,” the Elicker administration has submitted a 365-page report to the state’s transportation department — and hopes to install automated traffic-safety cameras by next spring.
Continue reading ‘Traffic Camera Plan Heads To State For Review’
by | Dec 9, 2024 2:16 pm | Comments (7)
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Avelo steps on Breeze's big week.
The race is on — as one budget airline announced four more flight destinations from Tweed, a day before another budget airline plans to kick off its tenure at the Morris Cove airport.
by | Dec 2, 2024 1:31 pm | Comments (21)
UNH student Priyanshu Agwal, who was struck and killed on Whalley in October 2023.
When Aman Agwal sleeps, his brother Priyanshu visits him in his dreams. Sometimes, he rides a scooter, the exact one that he was riding when he was struck and killed by a car — during a hit and run that, a year later, has resulted in an arrest.
“Sometimes he comes in my dream, and he just plays on his scooter,” Aman said during a Monday morning press conference at police headquarters. “I wish I could do something.”
by | Nov 26, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (12)
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Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto at the announcement of $25 million in "Move New Haven" Biden Bucks.
Connecticut’s transportation chief is stepping on the gas — to get public-transit paperwork in to Washington before a new presidential administration takes over.
by | Nov 25, 2024 6:14 pm | Comments (37)
Some people stop at red lights. As required by law.
by | Nov 18, 2024 10:44 am | Comments (13)
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Sherry Chapman: “The trauma to families is immeasurable and life lasting."
342 flags marking each life lost on CT's roads since last November.
Carri Roux had expected to find her son, Luke, back at the house after she finished walking the dog. But he was missing.
He never made it home.
Two years later, at a locally hosted memorial for lives lost on Connecticut’s roads, Roux described how scenes from that horrible day remain “etched” in her memory — and how a serious statewide focus on traffic safety could prevent future tragedies.
by | Oct 15, 2024 11:37 am | Comments (19)
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The city's most popular bike share station, at Orange & Linden.
Nearly 500 different people e‑biked more than 4,500 miles across more than 2,700 different trips in the first month of the city’s revived bike share program.
by | Oct 2, 2024 12:37 pm | Comments (20)
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Don't look now, but this stretch of High St ...
... will soon be turned by Yale into a pedestrian utopia.
More lighting, moveable tables and chairs, a stormwater teaching garden, and an eco-friendlier “community plaza” open to pedestrians and bikes but not cars — except during Yale move-in and move-out days.
All of that is on tap for a portion of High Street, as Yale planners unveiled early-stage designs for how a city-owned downtown block will be transformed by summer 2026.
by | Sep 30, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (8)
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At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Temporary office, ticketing, and passenger-waiting trailers can stay for another three years on Tweed’s New Haven side — as the regional airport works to build up a new terminal in East Haven by 2027.
Continue reading ‘3-Year Renewal OK'd For Temporary Tweed Trailers’
by | Sep 27, 2024 10:16 am | Comments (6)
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The infamous Kimberly-Boulevard intersection.
Raised crosswalks, designated left-turn lanes, elevated bike lanes, and improved signaling are coming to the intersection of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and Kimberly Avenue — after that state-owned intersection saw nearly 200 car crashes in two years.
Continue reading ‘Safety Upgrades Eyed For Crash-Prone Intersection’
by | Sep 26, 2024 3:45 pm | Comments (8)
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Union Station, get ready for some new neighbors ...
... at the TOD coming soon-ish to the east parking lot?
Four developers are in the running to build up a state-owned surface parking lot adjacent to Union Station — as part of a transit-oriented development that is likely still several years away from breaking ground.
by | Sep 24, 2024 3:02 pm | Comments (2)
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Welcome back, bus pass kiosk!
For the first time in four and a half months, downtown commuters can purchase all-day passes and ask about bus schedules in person — at the upgraded bus ticket kiosk on the Green, which is now back open.
by | Sep 9, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Colin Caplan: New Haven is the center of so much "invention, ingenuity, art, commerce, culture."
A fading stone monument to New Haven's cycling past.
Everyone now knows that New Haven is the pizza capital of the country, Colin Caplan proclaimed at the corner of Chapel and College Streets.
“A little monument” at that same southwestern corner of the Green, meanwhile, “suggests we might be the capital of bicycling as well.”
Continue reading ‘Start Your Bicycles, For 9th Annual Grand Prix’
by | Sep 9, 2024 2:29 pm | Comments (18)
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Frustrated bus riders Natalie Averill and Abdullah Livingston: "It's an inconvenience."
New signs, new reopen date: Sept. 23.
“Closed” signs have been replaced with those reading “We’re Back & Better Than Ever!”
But the bus pass kiosk on the Green is still not open, four months after the state first shuttered the small sales outlet and info center for repairs.
by | Sep 9, 2024 12:15 pm | Comments (26)
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At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Tweed’s operators are looking to keep in place for another three years temporary office, ticketing, and passenger waiting trailer buildings on the New Haven side of the airport property, as they continue to try to relocate the terminal to a new larger permanent structure on the East Haven side.
Continue reading ‘Renewal Sought For Temporary Tweed Trailers’
by | Sep 6, 2024 3:02 pm | Comments (46)
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City transit director Sandeep Aysola: This is "the single largest grant the city has received for transportation" in a long time.
Coordinated traffic signals, raised intersections, safer pedestrian crossings and two directions of car traffic will be coming to a 1.6‑mile stretch of Chapel Street by 2029 — or, maybe, sooner — thanks to an $11 million federal grant newly received by the city.
by | Sep 4, 2024 9:38 am | Comments (10)
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Catching the bus on the Green.
That state has awarded New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) $175,000 to continue providing its high school students with public bus passes not just to get to school and extracurriculars but now also to jobs, internships, and college courses, and then back home.
Continue reading ‘More Public Bus Passes En Route For Students’
by | Sep 3, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (24)
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Osvaldo Hernandez gets ready to ride to Wilbur Cross ...
... as parking authority's Norm Forrester and Doug Hausladen cut the ribbon on a revived bike share.
One hundred e‑bikes are now available to rent by the minute at 30 stations across the city — to help New Haveners like Osvaldo Fernandez make the active commute from a doctor’s appointment in Fair Haven to soccer practice at Wilbur Cross.
by | Aug 21, 2024 9:50 am | Comments (4)
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On the trail again ...
A walk by the New Haven Bioregional Group followed part of the route through Morris Cove of the proposed Shoreline Greenway Trail, which will connect the Farmington Canal Trail to the shore. In the process, it revealed a complex history of land use, and the ways that the push and pull of industrial use versus green spaces have shaped — and continue to shape — the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Shoreline Walk Reveals The Gray & The Green’
by | Aug 14, 2024 3:40 pm | Comments (24)
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"Exploratory work" underway on High, on Aug. 5. The street is now back open.
Yale University undertook two weeks’ worth of underground utility “exploratory work” on High Street between Chapel and Elm — as it inched towards turning the downtown block into a pedestrian- and cyclist-only plaza, in line with a deal struck by the city more than two years ago.
Continue reading ‘Yale Steps Towards High Street Conversion’
by | Aug 14, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (45)
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Looney at WNHH: Bradley has lots of room.
Commercial air service at Tweed-New Haven Airport is growing nearly as fast as an SST — too fast, in the opinion of one influential neighbor.
by | Aug 13, 2024 11:59 am | Comments (63)
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Breeze's Lukas Johnson: Quieter, more fuel-efficient planes to come.
(Updated) A second budget airline is coming to Tweed — with 11 new destinations on tap, including New Orleans, Jacksonville, and Raleigh-Durham.
by | Aug 8, 2024 3:16 pm | Comments (23)
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Q Meadows Alder Theresa Morant: “Yes! A safer neighborhood, finally!”
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Route 80, make way for slower traffic, including in front of the 270 Foxon Blvd. hotel-turned-shelter.
Traffic calming medians and lighting are one step closer to coming to a six-lane stretch of Route 80, also known as Foxon Boulevard, thanks to $1.6 million in state funds that city government has now officially accepted.
by | Aug 6, 2024 3:27 pm | Comments (30)
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Blumenthal: Not drunk, ready to drive.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal sat in the driver’s seat of an electric Ford Mustang and breathed.
A monitor behind the steering wheel flashed green — indicating that his blood alcohol content (BAC) was below the state’s legal limit of .08, and therefore he was all clear to drive.
If the car’s sensor had detected too high of a BAC, the monitor would have flashed red, and Blumenthal wouldn’t have been able to get the car to move.
by | Aug 2, 2024 8:53 am | Comments (36)
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The old Bike New Haven bikes, some of which will be re-used for Ride New Haven.
New Haven’s soon-to-return bike share program has a new name, new prices, and a new website — along with 100 e‑bikes that should be available to rent by the end of the month for $0.25 cents a minute.