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.
by | Jul 19, 2024 10:18 am | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Jul 12, 2024 2:48 pm | Comments (9)
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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.
by | Jul 10, 2024 5:11 pm | Comments (20)
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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!”
by | Jul 10, 2024 10:19 am | Comments (17)
(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.
by | Jul 8, 2024 5:38 pm | Comments (24)
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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.
by | Jul 3, 2024 1:49 pm | Comments (8)
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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.
by | Jun 21, 2024 2:34 pm | Comments (31)
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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.
by | Jun 19, 2024 9:23 am | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Jun 4, 2024 12:26 pm | Comments (48)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Cove Warning: As Airport Grows, We Suffer’
by | May 21, 2024 9:23 am | Comments (32)
19 locations for red light and speed cameras.
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.
by | May 20, 2024 12:32 pm | Comments (24)
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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.
Continue reading ‘As Foxon Safety Plan Advances, Crash Kills Driver’
by | May 17, 2024 1:02 pm | Comments (14)
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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.
by | May 13, 2024 3:10 pm | Comments (4)
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C.J. Fucci crew at work Monday on Orange Street.
Two years after digging up curbs at Orange and Grove streets — and then stopping part-way — construction workers returned to the spot Monday.
by | May 10, 2024 8:50 am | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘1 Small Step For Safety. 1 Giant Leap For West Rock’
by | May 8, 2024 1:51 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
by | May 8, 2024 11:11 am | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Canal Walk Connects City's Past, Present, Future’
by | May 1, 2024 4:28 pm | Comments (65)
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.
by | Apr 19, 2024 12:04 pm | Comments (32)
The indispensable DFA New Haven weighs in on freshly painted bike lane on long-delayed Edgewood cycletrack.
When the light at Osborn and Whalley turns from red to green, Hilda Kilpatrick counts to ten.
by | Apr 18, 2024 2:54 pm | Comments (36)
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Behavior change for drivers, not pocket change for city coffers, drove a proposal to install red-light and speed cameras toward another recommended approval.
by | Apr 17, 2024 2:58 pm | Comments (7)
Proposed 19 locations for red light and speed cameras.
A committee of alders unanimously voted Tuesday night to advance a plan to install 19 red light and speed cameras across New Haven.