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Go New Haven” Go Goes For A Walk

The Elm City got a head start on Alternative Transportation Month” (otherwise known as September) Monday by using the oldest form of transportation known to man — they put one foot in front of the other and went for a walk.

The city is encouraging New Haveners, and those who come to work here, to get out of their cars and be active” transportation users by walking, biking and riding the bus through a new initiative announced this summer called goNewHavengo.” (Read a full story about that here.) On Monday a crowd of walkers made their way from City Hall to Broadway to get the project started.

During the month of September, the New Haven Department of Transportation, Traffic, and Parking, in partnership with CTrides, the New Haven/León Sister City Project, Yale Transportation Options, New Haven Healthy City/Healthy Climate Challenge, Park New Haven, the Yale Office of Sustainability, is encouraging individuals and businesses to engage in a little friendly competition to see who can use their car the least.

Participants are asked to track their trips through NuRide, the nation’s largest commuter rewards program. (Sign up for the contest here.) There also will be a month of events to encourage sustainable transportation.

Mayor Toni Harp said her administration is working hard to make the streets and sidewalks safer for those who walk and bike, while simultaneously trying to drive down the city’s carbon footprint and pushing for a transportation system that is more responsive. She said the hope is that through Go New Haven Go, the city will generate data that will inform new commuter and transit patterns.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the goNewHavengo initiative makes for good economics, good education, good health and it’s good for the environment.”

New Haven is not just helping itself by lowering its carbon footprint and getting people out of their cars and off their rear ends,” he said. New Haven is helping to move the nation.”

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