Crash Kills Moped Rider
by | Aug 1, 2022 11:52 am | Comments (3)
Police have identified the 35-year-old New Haven man killed Sunday in a crash on Ella Grasso Boulevard: His name is Antonio Cruz-Ortiz.
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Plan Dropped To Shift School Bus Times
by | Jul 27, 2022 12:46 pm | Comments (3)
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New year, old schedule: Dismissal at Dunbar Hill School.
Never mind.
Hamden students will start school at the same time as last year.
After two months of hand wringing and debate concerning how to rearrange student busing schedules in a last-minute move to stay within the lines of a level budget, the Board of Education voted Tuesday night to keep school start and dismissal times the same as last year — in hopes that the town will indeed steer extra funding their way.
COGs Prepare To Guide Cities, Towns Through Infrastructure Process
by | Jul 25, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (3)
With so many opportunities for infrastructure investments, Connecticut’s Councils of Governments will play a leading role in guiding towns and cities through the process.
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On Green, Lamont, Lawmakers Tout New Clean Air Act
by | Jul 22, 2022 2:50 pm | Comments (3)
Ned Lamont announces bill in front of all-electric buses.
Gov. Ned Lamont inhaled the sweltering heat-wave air of the city with the country’s seventh-highest asthma prevalence — and touted a new state law aiming to make that air easier to breathe.
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Lemar: Green Lights Are On The Way
by | Jul 18, 2022 4:08 pm | Comments (21)
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State Rep. Roland Lemar at WNHH FM.
Not many people at the state Capitol talked about traffic-light timing at this year’s session. But quietly, legislators took a big step toward calming drivers’ nerves — and clearing the air.
"Safe Routes" Plan Boosts Bike-Lane Buildout
by | Jul 14, 2022 4:47 pm | Comments (47)
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Model for the future: The protected Crescent Street cycletrack.
What the city's cycling network should look like?
Make way for 90 new and upgraded miles of cycling-friendly infrastructure — including a 400 percent increase to New Haven’s protected bike lanes — if the recommendations included in the city’s recently completed “active transportation” plan ever bear fruit.
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Private Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Q River; Everyone Safe
by | Jun 30, 2022 9:10 pm | Comments (4)
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On Friday, plane is lifted and transported.
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Plane's original landing spot.
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Beechcraft beached Thursday by banks of the Q River.
It could have been a disaster when the pilot of a private single-engine plane had to make an emergency landing in New Haven Thursday afternoon.
Luckily, the pilot landed safely. The two human occupants — and their dog Carl — emerged unharmed.
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Tweed Moves To Provide More Parking, & More Sleep
by | Jun 29, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (14)
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City and Tweed officials announce new shuttle service Wednesday morning.
The 14-seat shuttle takes nine minutes, and will run every half hour.
Air travelers can now save $5 a day on parking and ride a free reserved shuttle from Union Station to Tweed New Haven Airport.
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Why The Politicians Crossed The Road
by | Jun 27, 2022 5:03 pm | Comments (5)
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Elicker bikes across Orange while U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, neighbor Thomasine Shaw, and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz walk down the pedestrian crosswalk.
A Congresswoman, a mayor, an alder, a lieutenant governor, and a longtime Hill resident crossed Orange Street Monday morning — because, after a half-century, they finally could.
Crash Kills Motorcyclist
by | Jun 26, 2022 1:32 pm | Comments (4)
Jamar Crenshaw.
A motor vehicle crash killed a 38-year-old New Haven man named Jamar Crenshaw.
Dioramas Dive Deep Into Canal History
by | Jun 24, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Escape New Haven's Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent peeks in ...
... to a diorama mini-history of the Farmington Canal circa 1835 ...
... as detailed in Escape's new outdoor adventure game, "Time Crimes: Pursuit of the Wallaby."
Lean in …
Just a little bit closer …
And tumble on through a dollhouse-sized portal into New Haven transportation history.
Rich History Revealed In Canal Walking Tour
by | Jun 17, 2022 6:18 pm | Comments (3)
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On Friday's canal history walking tour. Clockwise from top left: Tour guide Aaron Goode; Walking south past Yale's Benjamin Franklin College; an Escape New Haven-built diorama of the canal's early railroad years; a turtle sculpture in the Newhallville "Learning Corridor."
Aaron Goode pointed down to the 19th century trap rock retaining walls that still line the Farmington Canal Trail in Dixwell, and then up to the 21st century Yale-dorm-topping carved relief panels that pay homage to the enduring transportation corridor’s founding engineers.
“History is everywhere in New Haven,” he said, “above us and below.”
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One Down, 50 To Go: Street Paving Season Starts
by | Jun 16, 2022 1:27 pm | Comments (1)
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Construction begins Thursday morning on Sea Street in City Point.
Phase 1 of the milling and paving projects, which covers 51 streets on the west side of New Haven.
City crews started bright and early Thursday morning and milling paving Sea Street, the first of 51 roadways set to receive smoother surfaces over the next six weeks — and faster than in the past.
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Driver Dies After Crashing Into Restaurant
by | Jun 15, 2022 11:10 am | Comments (2)
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Firefighters at scene of crash.
A 22-year-old New Havener named Wilmer Lopez drove a Toyota Highlander into Scarpellino’s Restaurant on Forbes Avenue, then died from his injuries at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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Hamden Weighs Changing School Bus Schedules To Save $
by | Jun 13, 2022 4:50 pm | Comments (6)
Superintendent Goeler at the finance committee meeting.
Some Hamden students may get to sleep in a little later next year as the district considers changing its busing schedule in an effort to cut transportation costs.
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Raised Bike Lane Eyed For Water Street
by | Jun 13, 2022 3:31 pm | Comments (14)
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Cycletrack would begin on far side of this notoriously car-centric stretch.
Plans for the curbed bike lane: filling "an important gap."
If Giovanni Zinn’s vision comes to fruition, cyclists will no longer need to take their lives into their hands while riding along Water Street beside highway-bound cars.
City Sets Sights On
Electric Garbage Truck
by | Jun 10, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (16)
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Soon to arrive in New Haven?
Get ready to remove those ear plugs: If Giovanni Zinn has his way, the city will buy a new garbage truck that lowers the sanitation system’s carbon footprint and that doesn’t emit the signature 5 a.m. screech of its diesel-powered counterparts.
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Crash Kills 2 Seniors
by | Jun 1, 2022 1:25 pm | Comments (1)
Patricia Tucker.
An 82-year-old New Haven woman and an 83-year-old East Haven woman lost their lives in a car crash Tuesday.
Good-Bye, Lines: DMV Racks Up 750K Online Transactions
by | May 31, 2022 4:24 pm | Comments (1)
Gov. Lamont surrounded by DMV chief Sibongile Magubane and deputy Tony Guerrera at Tuesday's event.
Unlike in the past, there was no line wrapped around the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Wethersfield the day after Memorial Day — but Gov. Ned Lamont was there, to claim credit.
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$2.8M Quest Begins To Redo, "Rebrand" Ferry
by | May 24, 2022 4:15 pm | Comments (8)
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Sidewalks so narrow you’ll have to choose between wheelchairs and trees.
Roadways so tight you’ll have to choose between a bike lane and giving up large swaths of parking.
A single major intersection so problematic it has clocked more than 100 crashes in a year and a half.
The intersection in question is at Grand Avenue and Ferry Street. Fair Haveners described those challenges and pressed for solutions at a gathering hosted by City Engineer Giovanni Zinn, whose office is beginning a process to make the area safer.
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Artist Makes Own Traffic-Calming Measures
by | May 24, 2022 8:14 am | Comments (26)
You may have seen the signs at the exit ramps of I‑91 or I‑95 around town, or on long straightaways on Whitney Avenue, or that particular curve of road on Mather Street in Hamden. They say “Slow Down,” and they’re clearly directed at car traffic. Neatly stenciled and uniform in size, some of them look quasi-official. But they’re not.
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Shore Line East Goes Electric
by | May 23, 2022 4:06 pm | Comments (9)
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All aboard the inaugural Shore Line East M8 train on Monday.
State transit chief Giulietti: Pluses for speed, comfort, environment.
Out with diesel, in with electric.
A host of state and regional transportation officials made that promise as they announced that, starting on Tuesday, all trains servicing the Shore Line East rail system will be M8 electric cars — the same kind that have been running on the Metro-North’s New Haven Line for the past decade.
Cyclists Celebrate Canal's 200th Birthday
by | May 20, 2022 10:23 am | Comments (6)
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David Schadlich (right) and his brother Charles on a birthday ride.
Aaron Goode cuts the canal's 200th birthday cake, baked by Co Campbell.
David Schadlich knew exactly how he wanted to celebrate his 35th birthday: By taking the train to New Haven, and then biking 85 miles along the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail with his brother.
What he didn’t know was that, along the way, he’d also be helping celebrate the 200th birthday of the “crown jewel” of Connecticut’s bike-pedestrian transportation system.
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Bike To Work Week Pulls Up To State Street Station
by | May 18, 2022 3:34 pm | Comments (4)
Bike to Work Week celebration at State Street Station.
Seth Osborne was headed to Liberty Safe Haven on 210 State Str. to see his case manager to help him apply for disability Tuesday morning, when a free breakfast array caught his eye.
That drew him over to what ended up to be a celebration for Bike to Work Week, aimed at encouraging more people to get around town on two wheels. He was encouraged. But first he needs the wheels.
Seth Osborne.
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Greetings From Nashville!
by , and | May 11, 2022 4:27 pm | Comments (20)
Independent reporters Laura Glesby, Maya McFadden, and Nora Grace-Flood on scene at New Haven's newest direct-connection destination.
It took less than ten minutes through TSA, two hours on a plane, and a timeless rock track sung by a musician moonlighting as a Lyft driver to transport a trio of New Haveners to Nashville.
In the same amount of time, three hyperlocal reporters and homebodies were transformed into tourists, traversing beyond transportation-themed press conferences into new territory bordered by bluegrass, barbecue and surprisingly substantial bike lanes for a car-centric state.