by | Apr 16, 2024 9:37 am | Comments (47)
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City transit director Sandeep Aysola.
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.
by | Apr 10, 2024 9:50 am | Comments (66)
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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.
by | Mar 22, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Mar 20, 2024 11:48 am | Comments (34)
From Avelo's announcement email Wednesday.
Another day — another announcement of new cities to which Avelo Airlines is now flying direct from Tweed New Haven Airport.
by | Mar 18, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (90)
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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.
by | Mar 13, 2024 4:00 pm | Comments (12)
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Unique Auto's David Locklear: Prices dip, "still higher than ever."
Record-high used car prices are down. Which means New Haveners’ real estate taxes could go up this year.
by | Mar 12, 2024 2:42 pm | Comments (5)
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New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has again tapped First Student as its transportation contractor for the next four years, after searching in vain for two months for a competing bid.
by | Mar 11, 2024 10:26 am | Comments (31)
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All charged up with nowhere to go: Yet-to-be-deployed city-owned Chevy Bolts lined up outside 200 Wintergreen Ave.
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Climateers Max Teirstein, Steve Winter.
New Haven is starting small before going big — literally — as the city amps up its energy to go electric by 2030.
by | Mar 4, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (24)
A preliminary map of New Haven's upcoming addition to the Shoreline Greenway — connected to the Farmington Canal to the west and Shoreline Greenway to the East.
Northampton will soon be a hundred-mile hop, skip or jump away from Hammonasset State Park — once New Haven establishes itself as the link between the Farmington Canal Trail and Shoreline Greenway.
Continue reading ‘Move Over, Appalachian Trail: Canal Will Reach Guilford’
by | Feb 28, 2024 3:59 pm | Comments (55)
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The road to connectivity: Work begun on State Street bike lane.
Highlights from Wednesday's press conference.
The work of excavators mixed with officials’ visions of bustling downtown blocks Wednesday as New Haven started rebuilding a new stretch of State Street — or rebuilding a version of the old one.
by | Feb 27, 2024 4:13 pm | Comments (4)
Public Works' Mike Dorsey enjoys a view of the Quinnipiac River while overseeing bridge repairs Tuesday afternoon.
The Grand Avenue bridge got a new gear — and is gearing up to reopen not just to car travel, but to boat traffic as well.
by | Feb 15, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (14)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allocated a $2.5 million grant to help fund a new terminal at Tweed airport.
by | Feb 9, 2024 4:51 pm | Comments (2)
Jesenia Rodriguez en route to Capitol: Putting in policy miles to protect future rideshare workers.
“It’s been a journey getting here,” Uber driver Jesenia Rodriguez said as she parked her boyfriend’s stoplight red Toyota across from the state Capitol building.
She was running late. First she had to drop her grandkids off at Jepson School. Then she missed three exits on her way into Hartford while fielding phone calls from fellow rideshare and delivery drivers.
But now she had arrived, with a message to deliver.
by | Feb 8, 2024 11:33 am | Comments (18)
(Updated with corrected video; apologies for initial version, which repeated crashes and left some out.)
The corner of Dwight Street and Edgewood Avenue has become car-crash central since the traffic light stopped working right.
by | Feb 6, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (16)
New Haveners will be able to fly directly to Atlanta from Tweed New Haven Airport four times a week beginning May 2, as part of the of the latest expansion of flights.
Continue reading ‘Tweed Flights Starting To Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville’
by | Jan 9, 2024 2:10 pm | Comments (33)
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Darko Jelaca has a vision for this intersection.
Yet another driver barreled down Whitney Avenue, crossing the New Haven-Hamden town line far faster than the 25 miles-per-hour limit.
“TWENTY FIVE!” Darko Jelaca shouted at the car, having just made it to the corner of Whitney and Cliff after darting across the avenue.
Continue reading ‘Calls Renewed For Crosswalk To Edgerton Park’
by | Jan 2, 2024 3:16 pm | Comments (7)
The Board of Education is looking to bring a new fleet of electric school buses to New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Schools Seek Federal $ To Electrify Bus Fleet’
by | Jan 2, 2024 3:10 pm | Comments (47)
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A rendering of what a denser development (at left) could look like on the current "east lot" next to Union Station.
A Union Station rezoning proposal got a thumbs down — for now — from City Plan commissioners, amid concerns that it might not make sense to build so many new apartments next door to an active railyard.
by | Dec 22, 2023 2:42 pm | Comments (47)
Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
Federal regulators have ruled that Tweed New Haven Airport may move forward with plans to extend its runway and construct a larger terminal, which is a project the airport is undertaking with the goal of increasing airplane traffic.
by | Dec 21, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (80)
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A 4-foot bike lane between Edwards and Humphrey.
City transit planners Wednesday night received a fresh earful of impassioned pleas and conflicting advice from East Rockers as drivers and cyclists squared off about … Orange Street bike lanes.
by | Dec 21, 2023 10:27 am | Comments (15)
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The peanut’s shell didn’t crack.
by | Dec 20, 2023 8:36 am | Comments (23)
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A public bus on Dixwell Ave.
Strengthen incentives for people to buy electric vehicles. Build more, and more varied, charging stations. Replace school buses with zero-emission vehicles. Make public buses electric. Expand public transit into more rural parts of the state. Cut down on truck idling at highway construction sites.
Those are just some of the ideas at the center of state and regional planning efforts for how Connecticut can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050.
A federally funded competitive grant program has state and regional environmental entities readying proposals on that very topic — with a focus on reducing climate change-exacerbating emissions, especially in low-income neighborhoods.
In the process, data is being collected, and lessons learned, about just what the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions are.
Continue reading ‘Want To Curb Emissions? Start With Transportation’
by | Nov 27, 2023 8:20 am | Comments (15)
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Time to call in the alders: City's Kathleen Krolak, sustainability intern Lewis Johnson III at the Ives CMT meeting.
Eating, drinking, shopping, and soon enough being ho-ho and merry are all roaring back post-Covid, which is good news for Downtown and Wooster Square and the city’s economy.
However, that also means parking woes and complaints from both merchants and residents are on the rise. And don’t forget about the dreaded 8,000-person bar crawl.
Continue reading ‘Happy Holidays! = Bar Crawls, Valet Crunch’
by | Nov 15, 2023 8:41 am | Comments (34)
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Liborio and Maria Ayala, getting ready to return to PR...
... on inaugural Avelo flight from Tweed to San Juan.
Maria Ayala and her father Liborio drove from Bridgeport to Morris Cove early Wednesday morning to kick off a visit to their old home in Puerto Rico — as two of 145 passengers on the inaugural flight from Tweed New Haven Airport to San Juan.
Continue reading ‘145 Embark On First Flight To Puerto Rico’
by | Nov 9, 2023 9:31 am | Comments (41)
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Church near Elm: Two-way street approacheth?
The city’s transit department is moving ahead with plans to convert a handful of downtown streets from one-way to two-way — and is seeking public input before deciding how many parking spots should remain on George Street, where protected bike lanes should go on York, and whether or not to place a Bus Rapid Transit lane in the middle of Church Street.
Continue reading ‘Wanted: Public Input On 2-Way Street Conversion Proposals’