New Haven Independent

Transportation | July 2, 2009

Neighbors Give Thumbs Up To Signal Work

by Leonard J. Honeyman | July 2, 2009 7:33 AM | Permalink

"People come flying through this intersection," Marty Feldman was saying. Just then a dozen cars zoomed through the intersection, oblivious to the flashing yellow light.

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Transportation | June 30, 2009

Crown Street Gets A New Juice Bar

by Elise Granata | June 30, 2009 11:03 AM | Permalink

A '89 Volkswagon Jetta rolled down Crown Street and turned into a rejuvenated parking garage for a free fill-up -- minus the gas.

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Transportation | June 25, 2009

Plans Progress For Farmington Canal Trail

by Melinda Tuhus | June 25, 2009 7:48 AM | Permalink

The final New Haven section of the Farmington Canal Rail Trail -- from Hillhouse Avenue to the harbor --- is fraught with both danger and opportunity. One veteran trail builder hopes when all is said and done, the latter outweighs the former.

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Transportation | June 24, 2009

Whitney Avenue Redo: Better?

by Melissa Bailey | June 24, 2009 7:40 AM | Permalink

As work begins on a much-anticipated repaving of East Rock's thoroughfare, some call it a "missed opportunity" to create a safer street.

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Transportation | June 17, 2009

Citizen Cameras Nab Speeders

by Melissa Bailey | June 17, 2009 11:28 AM | Permalink

A school bus driver may be headed for discipline, after a neighbor caught a yellow bus on video barreling through Fair Haven Heights.

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Transportation | June 11, 2009

40% Bus "Tax" Blasted

by Melinda Tuhus | June 11, 2009 7:41 AM | Permalink

Gov. M. Jodi Rell says she opposes tax increases to close the state's yawning budget hole. Brandi Evans said Rell is raising taxes, on bus riders like her.

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Transportation | June 10, 2009

Parents Wrestle With Loomis Bottleneck

by Melinda Tuhus | June 10, 2009 4:36 PM | Permalink

Allyx Schiavone said she's "terrified" to allow her little kids to walk to school -- but also fearful of dangers posed by drivers when she drops them off.

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Transportation | June 4, 2009

Gabrielle Remembered; Whalley Widening

by Paul Bass | June 4, 2009 3:57 PM | Permalink

A year after a driver mowed down an 11 year-old girl on Whalley Avenue, the state prepared to start widening the congested road -- endangering other pedestrians' lives, in the view of neighborhood critics.

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Transportation | June 4, 2009

Less Than "Complete" Streets Bill Passes

by Melissa Bailey | June 4, 2009 8:17 AM | Permalink

In a victory for city traffic-calmers, the legislature passed a law to force the state to shift from an auto-centric transportation policy. Kind of.

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Transportation | May 15, 2009

Bike Commuters Get A Hand

by Melinda Tuhus | May 15, 2009 2:16 PM | Permalink

Options for getting to work and parking safely are expanding for New Haven's hundreds of bike commuters.

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Transportation | May 11, 2009

The Little Rail Line That Could... Or Couldn't?

by Melinda Tuhus | May 11, 2009 8:15 AM | Permalink

Commuters, politicians and bureaucrats all said they want commuter train service between New Haven and Springfield, Mass. But will the train ever leave the station?

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Transportation | May 4, 2009

2nd Pedestrian Struck By Bus

by Melissa Bailey | May 4, 2009 4:26 PM | Permalink

A pedestrian was critically injured Monday morning when he was hit by a CT Transit bus.

The collision happened at 8:45 a.m. at College Street and South Frontage Road, according to Philip Fry, a spokesman for CT Transit. The intersection, near the Yale medical campus, is known for heavy traffic, both of vehicles and pedestrians. Fry said the bus was making a left-hand turn when it struck the man. The bus was turning left onto South Frontage from College.

The victim, a 56-year-old man from Pennsylvania, was treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital for head trauma, police said. Fry said the company does not know who was at fault; New Haven police are investigating.

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Transportation | April 19, 2009

Bike To Work Day Begins Again

by Melinda Tuhus | April 19, 2009 4:40 PM | Permalink

Bike mechanic Skyler Vogt (pictured) demonstrated to a captivated group of cyclists the fine points of changing a flat at New Haven's first Bike to Work Day Breakfast of 2009.

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Transportation | April 14, 2009

Smart Streets Are Here

by Melinda Tuhus | April 14, 2009 1:04 PM | Permalink

Yale University, in collaboration with the City's Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking, just activated its Smart Streets website. It's interactive -- very interactive. Log on and click on the icon for Pedestrian, Motorist or Cyclist (a "hybrid life form" combining aspects of the first two kinds of road users, according to the irreverent language of the site). Holly Parker (pictured), director of sustainable transportation systems for the university, previewed the site at a meeting on campus on April 2 about complete streets. The site includes quizzes viewers can take to learn about the rules of the road and consequences for flouting them.

Transportation | April 10, 2009

A Streetcar Named Doable

by Leonard J. Honeyman | April 10, 2009 9:54 AM | Permalink

A trolley can work in downtown. It may take 10 years to get here.

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Transportation | April 7, 2009

New Haven Finally Connects With Hamden

by Melinda Tuhus | April 7, 2009 8:05 AM | Permalink

Talk of a "golden spike" permeated the celebration of the New Haven section of the Farmington Canal Rail Trail that will connect with Hamden's eight miles, and then on into Cheshire...and then, the world.

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Transportation | March 31, 2009

"Complete Streets" Begins in the Hill

by Allan Appel | March 31, 2009 8:12 AM | Permalink

Last year for their science project these three fourth-graders clocked an oil truck at 52 miles per hour and even a school bus racing at nearly 40 by their school, John C. Daniels Elementary. On Monday afternoon, they joined city officials and others on a "walking audit" of their Hill neighborhood to help planners calm traffic and make the streets safer for kids, pedestrians, and bicyclists.

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Transportation | March 23, 2009

Tweed Accord Takes Off

by Allan Appel | March 23, 2009 3:33 PM | Permalink

A week after the mayors of New and East Haven announced a historic memorandum of agreement on the future of the Tweed-New Haven Airport, the earth began to move. Not quite beneath their feet, but nearby.

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Transportation | March 18, 2009

Ed Tangles With A Bike Cop

by Thomas MacMillan | March 18, 2009 12:16 PM | Permalink

After Ed Stueckle saw a bike cop riding on the sidewalk, he told the officer that he had his "head up [his] butt." Matters deteriorated from there.

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Transportation | March 16, 2009

Camp David Moment Paves Way For Tweed Pact

by Leonard J. Honeyman | March 16, 2009 3:32 PM | Permalink

For four decades their predecessors had fought over airplanes and runways. A mediator assembled the two camps to seek a peace treaty. They remained stuck. Then the mayors of New Haven and East Haven decided to retire to another room, and find a way to make history.

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