Tweed supporters, critics, and innocent bystanders have 15 extra days to weigh in on the potential environmental impacts of a larger regional airport, now that the federal government has lengthened the public comment period for the airport’s draft Environmental Assessment (EA).
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Mar 22, 2023 4:08 pm
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Uber driver Teresa Jackson protests shrinking pay from her employer.
Drivers for Uber, Lyft and Doordash gathered outside Union Station to steer support towards better base pay and trip transparency — as another bill aiming to protect the rights of rideshare and delivery workers moves through the state legislature.
Wilfred Fuentes, Jayuan Carter, Tom Goldenberg aboard the 206.
Wilfred Fuentes is not looking forward to paying $1.75 again every time he needs to commute from his home in the Annex to his job in Hamden.
Fuentes found a sympathetic ear in a Democratic mayoral challenger who rode the bus and talked to riders roughly two weeks before fares are set to resume for the currently free-to-ride state-run public transit system.
After roughly a year and a half of study, Tweed New Haven Airport and a national aviation consultant have published a federally mandated environmental assessment of the airport’s expansion plans — opening the review up to 45 days of public comment, and bringing the airport one step closer to constructing a new terminal and extending the current runway.
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Feb 28, 2023 2:31 pm
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Caroline Smith and crew at work on Upper State.
Caroline Smith slid a shovel beneath some slush obscuring a State Street sidewalk — and cleared a pathway to keep some of the city’s small businesses open for snow day shoppers.
She was joined by a handful of other volunteers looking to lend some muscle to a slew of stores thrown off by the previous night’s snowstorm.
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Feb 24, 2023 8:45 am
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Each of Tweed's lots was bursting with cars on a Thursday morning when this reporter visited the scene.
One of who knows how many lawn signs on a Morris Cove home protesting Tweed expansion.
Tweed New Haven Airport is growing 34 more parking spaces to better accommodate the flood of cars consistently competing for spots on site — as environmentalists and neighbors continue to fight expansion of the regional airport located along a wetlands-filled Morris Cove property.
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Feb 22, 2023 4:04 pm
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Royale Gibbs: Before painted intersection, car flew into island and flipped in roadway.
Painted pavement around the Derby-Norton-George intersection.
Royale Gibbs remembers well when a car speeding up Derby Avenue rammed into a tree and flipped over a triangular island and into the middle of the street.
That was before the city, in a quick-fix effort to slow down traffic, painted the pavement around the island cerulean blue and put up a bevy of short plastic delineators.
“I remember this spot. This is definitely safer” now, he said.
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Feb 20, 2023 6:42 pm
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Tamara Wilfong unpacks her brand new steering wheel lock.
Tamara Wilfong turned the key on a bright yellow club locking her silver-lined steering wheel in place — and took a step towards protecting her newly purchased Hyundai from a rising tide of TikTok-driven theft.
Rendering of a proposed new "Gateway District" on Long Wharf.
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Community members hear a presentation at the Betsy Ross School Parish Hall.
A park and pedestrian-friendly walkway where cars now roar down Long Wharf Drive.
An automotive trade school where the former Gateway Community College building is starting to crumble.
A new home base for all of the APT Foundation’s New Haven substance-use treatment programs in a building specifically designed to address neighbors’ concerns.
Those ideas stand at the center of a new plan put together by top city officials on how to transform Long Wharf — a waterfront neighborhood currently dominated by big-box stores, parking lots, and the highway — into a mixed-use district bustling with education, healthcare, and outdoor recreation.
One of three fatal crash scenes in nine years at the corner of York Street and South Frontage Road.
Advocates of “speed cameras” on perilous streets invoked traffic stop-sparked police violence to argue that the devices protect rather than curtail civil rights.
That’s a new argument. One camera skeptic who wore the badge isn’t buying it.
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Feb 2, 2023 1:20 pm
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Safe-streets advocates at September City Hall hearing.
Make way for safe-streets upgrades to Blatchley, Bassett, Kimberly, Winthrop and Wintergreen, thanks to a newly announced $400,000 federal boost for New Haven’s plan to overhaul the city’s bike, pedestrian, and public transit infrastructure.
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Jan 30, 2023 5:07 pm
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DOT Commissioner and New Havener Garrett Eucalitto: "Intent" of speed cameras is not to surveil people, but to keep them from getting killed.
Yale medical student Aishwarya Pillai “Zoomed” up to Hartford to tell state legislators about the crushed skulls and other carnage she’s seen patients endure in the wake of local car crashes — and to relay her own experience nearly getting run over on South Frontage Road while trying to leave her shift at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Pillai recalled those gory details in a virtual plea made during a hybrid online/in-person public hearing at the State Capitol, where a host of New Haveners expressed their concerns with growing road dangers and then called on the Connecticut legislature to enact traffic safety measures — including allowing for speed and red-light cameras — to help cut down on future car-driven damage to life and limb.
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Jan 9, 2023 1:57 pm
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The former Winchester Arms plant at Munson and Mansfield, slated for demolition.
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Science Park Development Corp's David Silverstone: "I'm afraid someone's going to get hurt."
Science Park’s redevelopers are still planning to knock down an abandoned factory building saturated in toxic oil and marked by broken glass.
They’re now one small step closer to realizing that goal, as alders advanced a grant application that would cover a portion of the $10 million they need to demolish and remediate the derelict former site.
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Dec 13, 2022 11:40 am
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City Plan Director Laura Brown: Land uses are "bread & butter" of comp plan.
It’s time for New Haven’s comprehensive plan to get a rewrite — and for a public refresher concerning what that vaguely named document is designed to do.
Ford promotional images for the Interceptor SUV that the NHPD wants to purchase and the electric Mach-E Mustang that the NYPD bought. (AI-generated lightning not included.)
Should a once-in-a-lifetime flood of federal money be used to fund more gas-powered public safety vehicles, while the city contends with a looming climate crisis and one of the highest asthma rates in the country?
Alders raised those questions — even as they moved ahead the Elicker Administration’s proposal to use $4.5 million in federal pandemic-relief aid in part to buy new non-electric police SUVs and fire trucks.
