Transportation

19 Spots Picked For Traffic Cameras

by | Mar 18, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (30)

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Transit director Aysola: Human being will review camera footage before automated tickets are sent out.

Proposed 19 locations for red light and speed cameras.

Drivers hell-bent on whipping past the often-ignored red light at Park and South Frontage have only a few more months to avoid an automatic ticket, if a plan announced Monday goes through to put a red light camera there.

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Move Over, Appalachian Trail: Canal Will Reach Guilford

by | Mar 4, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (24)

A preliminary map of New Haven's upcoming addition to the Shoreline Greenway — connected to the Farmington Canal to the west and Shoreline Greenway to the East.

Northampton will soon be a hundred-mile hop, skip or jump away from Hammonasset State Park — once New Haven establishes itself as the link between the Farmington Canal Trail and Shoreline Greenway.

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Driver Gives Rideshare Rights A Lyft

by | Feb 9, 2024 4:51 pm | Comments (2)

Jesenia Rodriguez en route to Capitol: Putting in policy miles to protect future rideshare workers.

It’s been a journey getting here,” Uber driver Jesenia Rodriguez said as she parked her boyfriend’s stoplight red Toyota across from the state Capitol building.

She was running late. First she had to drop her grandkids off at Jepson School. Then she missed three exits on her way into Hartford while fielding phone calls from fellow rideshare and delivery drivers.

But now she had arrived, with a message to deliver.

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Calls Renewed For Crosswalk To Edgerton Park

by | Jan 9, 2024 2:10 pm | Comments (33)

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Darko Jelaca has a vision for this intersection.

Yet another driver barreled down Whitney Avenue, crossing the New Haven-Hamden town line far faster than the 25 miles-per-hour limit.

TWENTY FIVE!” Darko Jelaca shouted at the car, having just made it to the corner of Whitney and Cliff after darting across the avenue.

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Pause Urged On Union Station Rezoning

by | Jan 2, 2024 3:10 pm | Comments (47)

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A rendering of what a denser development (at left) could look like on the current "east lot" next to Union Station.

A Union Station rezoning proposal got a thumbs down — for now — from City Plan commissioners, amid concerns that it might not make sense to build so many new apartments next door to an active railyard.

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Want To Curb Emissions? Start With Transportation

by | Dec 20, 2023 8:36 am | Comments (23)

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A public bus on Dixwell Ave.

Strengthen incentives for people to buy electric vehicles. Build more, and more varied, charging stations. Replace school buses with zero-emission vehicles. Make public buses electric. Expand public transit into more rural parts of the state. Cut down on truck idling at highway construction sites.

Those are just some of the ideas at the center of state and regional planning efforts for how Connecticut can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050.

A federally funded competitive grant program has state and regional environmental entities readying proposals on that very topic — with a focus on reducing climate change-exacerbating emissions, especially in low-income neighborhoods. 

In the process, data is being collected, and lessons learned, about just what the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions are.

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Happy Holidays! = Bar Crawls, Valet Crunch

by | Nov 27, 2023 8:20 am | Comments (15)

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Time to call in the alders: City's Kathleen Krolak, sustainability intern Lewis Johnson III at the Ives CMT meeting.

Eating, drinking, shopping, and soon enough being ho-ho and merry are all roaring back post-Covid, which is good news for Downtown and Wooster Square and the city’s economy. 

However, that also means parking woes and complaints from both merchants and residents are on the rise. And don’t forget about the dreaded 8,000-person bar crawl.

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145 Embark On First Flight To Puerto Rico

by | Nov 15, 2023 8:41 am | Comments (34)

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Liborio and Maria Ayala, getting ready to return to PR...

... on inaugural Avelo flight from Tweed to San Juan.

Maria Ayala and her father Liborio drove from Bridgeport to Morris Cove early Wednesday morning to kick off a visit to their old home in Puerto Rico — as two of 145 passengers on the inaugural flight from Tweed New Haven Airport to San Juan.

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Wanted: Public Input On 2-Way Street Conversion Proposals

by | Nov 9, 2023 9:31 am | Comments (41)

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Church near Elm: Two-way street approacheth?

The city’s transit department is moving ahead with plans to convert a handful of downtown streets from one-way to two-way — and is seeking public input before deciding how many parking spots should remain on George Street, where protected bike lanes should go on York, and whether or not to place a Bus Rapid Transit lane in the middle of Church Street.

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$7M In State Aid Flows To Whalley Housing, Traffic-Safety Projects

by | Nov 1, 2023 10:55 am | Comments (32)

55 planned new apartments on Whalley, now boosted by state $.

A long-delayed, church-led affordable housing development on Whalley Avenue took a big step towards breaking ground — alongside a suite of traffic calming measures on the perilously car-heavy corridor near Stop & Shop — thanks to a $7 million infusion from the state.

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City To Buy Parking Meters That Work

by | Oct 16, 2023 9:58 am | Comments (16)

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A "smart" MK5 meter and a "dumb" MK3 meter on display, as described by city traffic deputy Bijan Notghi.

Drivers may soon uncover new routes to pay for parking in New Haven — as the city looks into buying 1,400 new meters and 50 new kiosks with capacity to accept card taps and Apple Pay rather than just inserted credit cards and coins.

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