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.
Lemar: "I am excited to guide the legislature through this transformative time for our state's infrastructure."
New Haven State Rep. Roland Lemar will again be in a top legislative role for developing statewide transportation policy come January as he prepares to serve a third term as House chair of the Transportation Committee.
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Nov 28, 2022 8:56 am
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Aubrey Bido and Aaliyah Jones trying to calm speeders.
“We have to worry so much about the cars going fast, we can’t learn how to spell!”
The remark by Common Ground High School freshman Aubrey Bido and her classmate Aaliyah Jones was jokey about the misspelled word on Bido’s sign,“Yeild” for “Yield,” but the occasion was anything but.
In fact, the message — and the West Rock safe streets sign-making workshop it sprang from — pointed to a matter of life and potential vehicular death.
DOT Commissioner-to-be Garrett Eucalitto, on the Green in March 2021.
Gov. Ned Lamont has tapped yet another New Havener from within the ranks of his administration to lead a major state government department during his second term.
A week before the state legislature gathers to vote on whether CT Transit buses should remain fare-free through April, the Board of Alders formally called on state government to make public buses free to ride forever.
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Nov 21, 2022 1:50 pm
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Assistant Chief McCarthy shares safety tips on lithium-ion batteries.
Check lithium-ion-powered vehicles and devices regularly for damage. And make sure to use manufacturer-sanctioned chargers, rather than potentially unsafe off-brand replacements.
Top fire department officials delivered that advice during a City Hall workshop focused on how to prevent explosions of increasingly ever-present lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from electric cars and bikes and scooters to laptops and smartphones.
Once you hear how many steps Estelita Boateng took before arriving on Nicoll Street Wednesday with her 4‑month-old son Lucas, you may never complain again about your exhausting daily routine.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Nov 15, 2022 3:00 pm
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Outside Tuesday's funeral on Ferry St.
The late city firefighter Thomas Mieles.
Fair Haven families and New Haven public safety professionals filled Ferry Street Tuesday afternoon to mourn the loss of city firefighter Thomas Mieles, whose sudden off-duty passing has only sharpened the pain felt by a community still processing a series of recent deaths.
Wanda Perez: Buses are a lifeline to doctors, food pantries, family.
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Fares, be gone!
As she juggles the cost of everything from utilities to laundry, the past seven months of fare-free buses have given Wanda Perez one less expense to worry about.
“That helps me go to my doctors’ appointments, to see my loved ones,” Perez told a room full of bus riders, transit advocates, and alders — as they collectively pushed for making the state’s temporary bus fare holiday permanent.
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Nov 3, 2022 3:18 pm
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83, 85, and 87 Woolsey (the three houses pictured from right to left): All slated for demolition to make way for a new larger parking lot.
A Fair Haven community health center won permission to knock down three houses and build a larger surface parking lot — as it moves forward with a plan to create an expanded neighborhood-anchoring medical campus.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 3, 2022 10:06 am
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Mieles's classmates, including Ibrahim Cheek (center), mourn the loss of one of their own Thursday.
The late city firefighter Thomas Mieles.
City firefighters mourned yet another death of one of their own as they gathered at the Lombard Street station to remember Thomas Mieles, a 27-year-old Fair Havener who died Wednesday night in a five-vehicle car crash on I‑91.
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Nov 2, 2022 1:48 pm
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New sidewalk under construction on Pearl St.
Construction has finally begun on a new sidewalk along a perilous stretch of Pearl Street that connects Yale’s business school with one of East Rock’s main corridors.
The deadly Ella T. Graso-Columbus-Davenport-Orange Avenue intersection.
As another pedestrian death reminded New Haven of the perils of walking on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, plans to make that state-owned roadway safer have been pushed back yet again.
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Nov 1, 2022 9:25 am
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John Martin: Soon off to his next wheeled adventure.
After eight years of building up the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op, John Martin has purchased his first gas-powered vehicle — and is taking off on a six-month sabbatical via van while the shop he founded changes gears.
A 68-year-old New Havener named Damaso Rosario Luna was struck and killed by a car on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard Saturday night, marking just the latest pedestrian fatality on one of the city’s most dangerous roads for walkers.
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Oct 27, 2022 1:50 pm
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
Tweed airport won permission to build 203 new “temporary” parking spaces in anticipation of heightened holiday travel demand at the current New Haven terminal — and in advance of the planned construction of a new larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
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Oct 25, 2022 1:10 pm
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Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A health center’s plan to rezone a Fair Haven block to allow for more parking, and eventually a larger medical campus, moved ahead — despite city staff’s initial recommendation of denial.
Tweed Director Scanlon: "A week away from submitting a draft."
Tweed’s airport authority is roughly a week away from submitting to the federal government a draft environmental assessment report — bringing the Morris Cove airport that much closer to realizing its plan to extend the runway and build a new, larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
