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David Council: "Making sure everything runs good" at Russell Speeder's.
David Council gives a heart sign, a wave, or a double thumbs-up to every car that drives through New Haven’s newest car wash — the local outpost of a private equity-owned chain he helps manage on Whalley Avenue.
The suds might look familiar to customers of traditional mom-and-pop cleansers. The financing behind the wheel? A new business model for the car-wash highway.
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Jul 12, 2024 2:48 pm
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Percy Dagraca, balancing carefully to avoid leaving a footprint.
Fresh concrete dried quickly on Crescent Street under the hot sun.
The long-awaited sidewalk-in-progress across from Beaver Pond Park is the product of years of neighborhood advocacy, political bureaucracy, geometric problem-solving, and now physical labor.
Still figuring it out: Drivers side-by-side across double yellow line on newly two-way stretch of York.
As Yale New Haven Hospital staffer Rosalyn Curry walked out of work and down York Street, a car sped past her, barreling down the wrong side of the street. She shouted after the driver: “It’s a two-way now!”
(Updated) West Haven driver Nader Elias Hanania, 63, died early Wednesday morning after his vehicle was struck by a car that blew through a red light at South Frontage Road and College Street.
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Jul 8, 2024 5:38 pm
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Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming’s Brian Garrity, with Department of Public Works’ Steve Mustakos: “Asphalt is the most recycled product in the world.”
A city-contracted truck removed the top layer of asphalt from Mead Street, kickstarting New Haven’s summer season of tearing up and smoothing out roads.
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Jul 3, 2024 1:49 pm
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Jimmy Reardon, at work renovating the bus kiosk.
Jimmy Reardon cut a hole in the roof of the decades-old bus kiosk on the Green — to install a vent for a new air conditioner, and to help bring that long-shuttered building back online so that bus riders can buy passes in person again on Chapel Street.
Checking the gear shifts on a former bike share bike. After 4-year hiatus, new rental program is en route.
Short-term bike rentals are coming back to New Haven — this time with e‑bikes — thanks to a new agreement inked by the parking authority and a San Francisco-based bike share provider.
Officials, including Mayor Elicker, at the ready for Tuesday's presser.
Raised intersections and repaved roadways are coming to Valley Street — now that a three-years-in-the-making traffic calming and infrastructure improvement effort has broken ground.
John Laudano faces off with Avports spokesman Andrew King.
More than 100 Morris Cove neighbors rang the alarm bell for Tweed representatives at a three-hour meeting Monday night, cautioning that the regional airport’s continued growth in plane traffic, routes, and passengers has led to a steep decline in their quality of life.
Alders paved a road for the city to fine speeding drivers and red light runners with the help of traffic cameras — though they are poised to fund only half of the city positions the Elicker administration has requested for the rollout of those cameras in the upcoming city budget.
Foxon & Middletown, near site of Saturday's fatal crash.
A state-funded local plan to build traffic-calming medians on Foxon Boulevard moved forward at City Hall — several days before a 22-year-old driver lost his life in a fiery crash on the state-owned speedway itself.
146 Greenwich (right): Room on the block for another car?
Trachten and Rodriguez offer different views to BZA on adding housing without parking.
The city’s latest clash of cars and beds took place at the dead end of Greenwich Avenue, where an alder sought to stop the creation of a single new apartment on the grounds that the street already has too many parked vehicles.
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May 10, 2024 8:50 am
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Angel Mercado, Luis Diaz, and Joel Tolman on Thursday.
Walking to school is going to become a lot safer in the near future for students like Common Ground seniors Angel Mercado and Luis Diaz, as a half mile of new sidewalks connecting Brookside Estates and other developments with their Springside Avenue charter school are en route — as part of a suite of traffic safety improvements coming to the semi-rural West Rock corner of the city.
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The inert grenade was ultimately surrendered to TSA.
A passenger tried to bring a hollowed-out grenade on a Tweed Airport flight to Charleston — prompting security to close the terminal for over an hour on Wednesday morning, while police confirmed that there was no safety threat.
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May 8, 2024 11:11 am
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On the canal trail by the William "King" Lanson statue.
The history of New Haven entrepreneurship past and present. The fortunes of a neighborhood rising and falling, and rising again. The legacies of environmental depredation, and the work to create healthier, more sustainable places.
All these themes were touched upon in the latest walk from the New Haven Bioregional Group, in which Aaron Goode of Friends of the Farmington Canal Greenway led a group of about 30 walkers through the New Haven section of the urban trail that today connects almost seamlessly to Northampton, Mass.
New Haven police Wednesday afternoon released video footage of the East Rock crash Sunday involving a cop cruiser and an ATV, sending the ATV rider to the hospital.
Behavior change for drivers, not pocket change for city coffers, drove a proposal to install red-light and speed cameras toward another recommended approval.
As alders consider whether to legalize red light and speeding cameras in New Haven, Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed adding four new city employees to install and manage 20 such cameras in the next fiscal year.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn (right): Goal is to keep everyone safe.
Upper Orange Street’s parking spots will all stay put. The city will build no new dedicated bike lanes.
But! The city will “slow” the street and make room for cars and cyclists alike by narrowing the road, trimming the speed limit, improving signage and sightlines, coloring the street, and putting in a median.
Such are the details the Elicker administration has put together after years of debate over a new design for a nine-block run of Orange Street between Humphrey and Cold Spring Streets.
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Lisa Reisman |
Mar 22, 2024 3:14 pm
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Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op volunteer Julia Nojeim fixing Alfred Wicker's flat tire.
Angus Lamont, Mayor Justin Elicker, Catherine Lindsay, and Steve Winter look on as Doreen Abubakar cuts the ribbon.
Agitating the atmosphere: That’s what Doreen Abubakar called the opening of the Newhallville Bike Box, a new free bike repair station on Shelton Avenue and Hazel Street.
“We live in a place where there is no library, no medical institution, and no community space where people can gather,” Abubakar, founder of the Community Placemaking Engagement Network, told the spirited group of 30 at a festive, if wind-buffeted, ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Transit director Aysola: Human being will review camera footage before automated tickets are sent out.
Proposed 19 locations for red light and speed cameras.
Drivers hell-bent on whipping past the often-ignored red light at Park and South Frontage have only a few more months to avoid an automatic ticket, if a plan announced Monday goes through to put a red light camera there.
