... 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.
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Sep 30, 2024 3:14 pm
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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.
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Sep 27, 2024 10:16 am
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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.
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Sep 26, 2024 3:45 pm
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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.
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Sep 24, 2024 3:02 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Aug 21, 2024 9:50 am
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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.
"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.
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.
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.
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Jul 19, 2024 10:18 am
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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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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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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.
