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.
David Agosta with Zinn behind K of C museum on walking tour.
As cars rumbled along a milled-but-not-yet-repaved stretch of State Street behind the Knights of Columbus museum, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn urged the dozen downtown neighbors before him to engage in a little “crazy brainstorming.”
What could — what should — this roadway be when it no longer belongs to cars?
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Oct 10, 2022 12:30 pm
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Beaver Hills neighbors Nan Bartow and Rebecca Cramer advocating for a new Crescent St. sidewalk in February.
Approximately 550 feet of new sidewalks should soon be coming to an oft-traversed stretch of Crescent Street thanks to the pedestrian safety advocacy of Beaver Hills neighbors.
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Sep 30, 2022 11:59 am
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Cutting the ribbon on the rehabbed Ferry St. bridge.
Construction crews wrap up work before bridge's official reopening.
Cars and trucks looking to cross between Fair Haven and Cedar Hill can use the Ferry Street bridge again, now that the state has wrapped up a $3 million rehab of a span that has been closed to traffic for the last five months.
Town Engineer Stephen White with pup Diamond on Davis St. ...
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... which is one of four Hamden Streets slated for sidewalk repairs and additions.
New sidewalks are en route to Southern Hamden as part of a revived effort to protect pedestrians — leading some neighbors to question whether safer places to stroll are needed where not many people currently walk.
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Sep 22, 2022 1:26 pm
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A rebuilt Dixwell Plaza, with a one-level-larger greenhouse-topped parking garage (circled in red).
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers won permission to scrap a too-costly underground parking garage in exchange for a larger temporary surface parking lot in their ongoing effort to build up the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood.
Non-fatal bike-car crash Tuesday at Orange St. and Lawrence St. In this case, the driver stayed on scene and cooperated with police.
City police have made arrests in two of last year’s fatal hit-and-run incidents — including in a case in which a New Haven driver allegedly struck a pedestrian on Chapel Street, drove for over eight minutes with the injured man lodged in the back of his car, and then stopped only to drag the pedestrian’s body out into the street and abandon him before fleeing the scene.
Painted street-crossings, above, started the process of restitching the borders of Wooster Square and downtown.
Pedestrians and cyclists will have a protected slice of State Street all to themselves. But what about bus riders?
That new information, and subsequent questions, emerged from city leaders’ first public input session about plans to redesign one of the city’s widest driving corridors, one that connects four neighborhoods and two train stations, to rebuild housing and restore safe pathways in an Urban Renewal-cleared corridor.
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Sep 13, 2022 3:38 pm
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Ed board member Darnell Goldson at Monday's alder hearing.
Board of Education member Darnell Goldson took on the role of whistleblower as he criticized the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) contracting process as unduly shielded from public oversight, and as overly favorable to the current school bus provider.
Mayor Elicker (right) biking in the new Wall St. contra-flow lane.
Cyclists heading west across downtown towards Yale’s campus won’t have to take as many one-way-street detours, thanks to a new “contra-flow” bike lane on Wall Street that was the scene Monday of an official inaugural ride.
Drivers and supporters outside City Hall Wednesday.
Drivers from across the state broke away from behind their steering wheels Wednesday to march across New Haven to demand better benefits, pay and protections from rideshare companies like Uber.
Morris Cove neighbors will get a half-hour reprieve from morning airplane noises starting on Thursday, as Avelo Airlines pushes back its earliest daily from 6 to 6:30 a.m.
City government now has an officially adopted plan for how to overhaul New Haven’s bike, pedestrian, and public transit infrastructure to promote safe, connected, and car-free travel.
Next up: Applying for federal funds to help make that vision a reality.
Pedestrians of the world unite! Stalls and Weber make synchronous TikToks on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.
Two TikTok phenoms concerned with pedestrian safety set out from the outskirts of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard Sunday morning — with the intention of spotlighting one of New Haven’s, and the state of Connecticut’s, most dangerous stretches while on a viral walk.
Kai Addae (left) and Max Chaoulideer (right) at City Hall hearing.
The city’s planned overhaul of bike, pedestrian, and transit infrastructure is on a fast track to potential approval, as officials race to meet a mid-September deadline for a crucial grant.
A planned expansion of Tweed New Haven took a big step forward Wednesday, as the Morris Cove airport’s board members voted to approve a new 43-year lease and development agreement with a private company that plans to invest $100 million in extending the runway and building a new, larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
That vote came as East Haven officials ramped up opposition to the expansion plans — with every town-appointed board member voting against the lease agreement, and the town’s mayor threatening a lawsuit, and even a “street fight” if necessary, in order to stop this project from moving ahead.
Nearly 11 months after the Board of Alders signed off on a new 43-year lease between the city and Tweed’s airport authority, the Morris Cove airport’s board is set to vote on a parallel agreement that would pave the way for a long-sought major expansion.
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Board member Mariam Khan: Let's still talk about better bus schedules.
Hamden’s Legislative Council has agreed to transfer $585,000 to the Board of Education (BOE) in order to fund school bus rides this September — reversing a previous decision that had sparked a now-shelved plan to change bus schedules.
