by | Feb 16, 2022 8:37 am | Comments (24)
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Last Friday's celebration of the first 100 days of Avelo service at Tweed.
Tweed New Haven is continuing its rapid growth as a regional commercial airport with the announcement that Avelo Airlines will launch nonstop flights to Nashville; Myrtle Beach and Charleston, S.C.; and Savannah, Georgia/Hilton Head, S.C.
by | Feb 15, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (11)
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It was rush hour on Crescent Street, and cars were zipping by well past the speed limit. A pedestrian tried to stay clear — but with no sidewalk available, he had to navigate a narrow shoulder.
The pedestrian unwittingly underscored a point Beaver Hills neighbors were making at that very moment.
by | Feb 11, 2022 1:47 pm | Comments (20)
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Elected officials and airport boosters tout 100 days of Avelo Airlines flying in and out of Tweed.
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Avelo Airlines announced plans to announce “several” new destinations from Tweed in a matter of “days, not weeks,” as the budget carrier celebrated 100 days of flying in and out of the Morris Cove-based regional airport.
Long-awaited deals on airport operations with Avports and with Uber, on the other hand, remain elusive.
Continue reading ‘Budget Airline Celebrates 100 Days At Tweed’
by | Feb 8, 2022 11:48 am | Comments (19)
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Aftermath of Sherman Parkway crash.
Aftermath of Central-Chapel crash.
A Hamden man died Monday from injuries suffered in a car crash at Chapel Street and Central Avenue, one of two collisions in New Haven that required fire rescue crews to extricate trapped victims.
Continue reading ‘Crash Kills Man; Pregnant Woman Extricated From Car In 2nd Incident’
by and | Feb 7, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Andrew Finkelman awaits ride at Union Station after visiting girlfriend.
The word on Union Avenue Monday morning was: Metro-North keeps love alive.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Love Rides On Metro-North’
by | Jan 26, 2022 9:24 am | Comments (11)
When rezoning for “transit-oriented development” — particularly at spots like Union Station, currently gobbled up by surface parking lots — be aggressive.
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by | Jan 24, 2022 8:52 am | Comments (6)
Make room for newbies: Current Wooster Square residents at dog park.
With new apartment complexes rising along and near Olive Street, Wooster Square is planning ahead of an anticipated influx of new neighbors — and the dogs they’re sure to bring with them.
by | Jan 21, 2022 3:32 pm | Comments (27)
New Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner Friday at Union Station: Once-in-50-years chance to fulfill transit "dreams."
We’re not giving up on that one hour train ride to New York — but in the meantime, a 25-minute improvement has become increasingly realistic.
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by | Jan 18, 2022 2:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Ozyck and Curran cross the reopened bridge on Day One.
After waiting nearly two years, neighbors Rosie Ozyck and Donna Curran got to walk across the Grand Avenue bridge Tuesday — and meet up more efficiently for their daily stroll.
Continue reading ‘They Crossed That Bridge When They Came To It’
by | Jan 10, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (40)
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Plan for 3-lane Whitney.
The city is looking to put Whitney Avenue on a “diet” — to slim down the roadway to make it safer for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. Some neighbors at the latest community meeting embraced the waist-trimming regimen; others were not so sure.
by | Jan 6, 2022 11:53 am | Comments (7)
Fly Morgan Stanley to Florida?
by | Jan 4, 2022 1:28 pm | Comments (25)
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Bike Life on parade in the Annex.
It starts softly. A faraway hum, a whisper in the night. As it approaches, you can feel it in your bones. Conversations stop. Drivers hold their steering wheels tighter. Pedestrians crossing the street hurry back to the sidewalk.
The motorcycles are coming.
by | Jan 3, 2022 10:53 am | Comments (1)
New Haven’s public schools reopened from winter break Monday morning with 18 percent of bus drivers calling out sick as the Omicron variant swept through the state.
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by | Dec 24, 2021 9:32 am | Comments (20)
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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn atop a "detectable warning pad" designed to help blind pedestrians cross Kensington Street.
Giovanni Zinn is ending a busy 2021 with a new bridge to show off, not to mention speed humps and cycletracks and raised intersections all over town.
by | Dec 21, 2021 5:39 pm | Comments (14)
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Mayor Justin Elicker and Connecticut Transportation Commissioner Joe Giulietti sign on to a vision of shorter train rides, new bathrooms, and shared management of state owned facilities.
Local, state, and federal leaders came together Tuesday to support, sign, and seal a 55-year deal to redevelop and modernize Union Station — and promised to pave the way for a bustling 2022 during a time of mass uncertainty.
by | Dec 15, 2021 4:21 pm | Comments (21)
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Airport bound: Boarding the 206 Wednesday on Chapel Street.
Here’s the secret code to getting to the airport: As you board the 206, tell the bus driver you’re heading to Tweed, so he’ll know to make an extra stop.
by | Dec 10, 2021 2:16 pm | Comments (18)
Fountain Street’s fixers are suggesting that New Haven do the bump to keep the public safer.
by | Nov 29, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (9)
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Newly appointed TT&P director Sandeep Aysola and LCI director Arlevia Samuel at City Hall on Monday.
The mayor has tapped the city’s acting Livable City Initiative (LCI) director to take over as the permanent head of City Hall’s neighborhood development and housing code enforcement department—and has picked a local transportation consultant to lead Transportation, Traffic & Parking (TT&P).
Continue reading ‘Elicker Picks New LCI, Transportation Directors’
by | Nov 29, 2021 3:31 pm | Comments (7)
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (center) with Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett and State Sen. Jorge Cabrera Monday on new CT Transit electric bus.
Politicians shared a victory lap on the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s first electric bus Monday — and celebrated a future in which more routes and greener rides will be available for working-class people thanks to the new federal infrastructure law.
by | Nov 26, 2021 9:27 am | Comments (53)
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Enough already?
Alder Kim Edwards: “It took me weeks to get a car towed.”
How many parking tickets are issued, where and when?
Do traffic enforcers bring in more money than they cost? Should city hire more? Issue more tickets?
Do so many residential parking zones eliminate free, legal spots?
East Rock neighbors raised those questions — and started hunting for answers.
Continue reading ‘East Rockers Seek Parking Answers, & Fixes’
by | Nov 19, 2021 1:53 pm | Comments (11)
Humans proceed at your own peril: Looking West on Eli Road.
Stressed “street network” including Ridge Road to Davis Street, Eli Road, and down to Whitney Avenue.
Martha stood in front of her condo complex on Eli Road and considered the prospects of walking the ten feet to her neighborhood’s garden park.
“You cross here?” she warned. “You’re dead.”
by | Nov 18, 2021 11:51 am | Comments (21)
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Looking down High Street from Elm. Will this some day look like…
… this? Looking east on the Yale-owned section of Wall Street.
The city has agreed to close off a portion of High Street to car traffic, and to allow Yale to fund, design, and maintain a new publicly-owned walkway in its place.
Raising the question: How exactly is this different from selling a city street?
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by | Nov 16, 2021 9:59 am | Comments (3)
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Rendering of redeveloped Union Station.
On the same day that President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill targeted at improving the country’s transportation networks, the Board of Alder granted final approval to a three-part plan to redevelop Union Station to include 600 new parking spaces, an “intermodal center” for bus riders, and improved retail options.
Continue reading ‘Alders Approve 55-Year Union Station Deal’
by | Nov 16, 2021 9:51 am | Comments (26)
Stephen Rediker.
Stephen Rediker, the 79-year-old New Havener struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding a bicycle, has died from injuries sustained in the crash.
by | Nov 15, 2021 9:26 am | Comments (8)
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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn talks Valley Street improvements with neighbors at the Shack.
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Reconstruction plans to sharpen up Valley Street’s wide curves and slow down drivers have come into focus — and met with agreement from West Hills neighbors at a community meeting.
Continue reading ‘Details Emerge For “Calming” Valley Street’