New Bus Hubs Seen For Fair Haven, Hill

Snake-OIl and Three-Card Monte.This is not about concentration of methadone users overdosing downtown.This about Gentrification and to push the poor and working class out from Downtown.I told you all years ago the they are trying to make the Downtown area like central park west.As Braden Currey of the yale daily wrote.We also see evidence of the continued emergence of professional communities. While the total number of people with professional jobs in New Haven has increased by only 1 percent, the downtown area (Tract 1401) has had its professional population increase by 20 percent since 2000 — now, 74 percent of all people who live there hold white-collar jobs. The area around the School of Medicine (Tract 1403) has seen a similarly meteoric rise, increasing its professional fraction by 13 percent since 2000 to a current value of 27 percent.Notice what he said about Downtown.Again this is not about methadone users overdosing. This is about 74 percent of all those people who live there hold white-collar jobs and to push out the poor and working class people who worked downtown.

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Changing New Haven's bus hubs will make travel easier but the question is who is going to pay for it? It will not counter the concentration of methadone, other drug use and overdosing downtown, just move it to the suggested hub locations in the Hill, Fair Haven, and the East Shore. The Green is a central stop which many people use to make other bus connections and are but the people that are being referenced in this article are not the students, hard working folks commuting to work, it is the ones making the choice to spend hours a day in and around the Green and the Ninth Square. They do so because it is a convenient gathering point so changing the hub doesn't change or lessen the problem, just the location. We need to stop taking the brush the dirt under the rug approach and start trying to look for real solutions to tackle the addiction and homeless situation on and around the Green.

I am not in favor of the new hubs.This sounds like an attempt to push "regular" folks away from "littering" the Green With colored and less fortunate folks. Although we need to revamp our routes and infrastructure this is just the beginning of a plan that they are working on to keep downtown CLEAN. No sites of everyday normal people that actually line in the city. Shame on officials for trying to call it something else.

Why not move bus hubs to Prospect Hill, Amity and Whitney? If mayor wants to keep overdoses out of sight how about removing drug treatment programs that allow people to actively use while in treatment out of New Haven. That's why they come here. No mandate to stop using. Here's an idea. How about moving drug program from next door to elementary school exposing our children to that norm. An informed and caring mayor would never suggest moving more tragedy to already traumatized areas of the city. Maybe she chose those areas because she doesn't expect push back.

I think it would make more sense to have more bus hubs instead of just moving one to a different location. Downtown is a major destination for people who commute in and out of the city by bus. I actually think that it would be smart to add more hubs around town given the fact that the buses are almost never on time. It's really not easy getting through New Haven when you don't have a car.

Paul, the first line in the story is a bit unclear, leading to a misapprehension expressed in a couple of the comments. No one, at this point, is talking about eliminating the Green as the central hub of the bus system. (Doing so would likely prompt a complaint and review under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.) Instead, what is being considered is the creation of new transfer points, as discussed later in the story.

While I think establishing the three transfer points identified by Doug Hausladen would help some riders, I doubt it would have much impact on the people going to methadone clinics, notably those coming from Warebury.

In the unlikely event New Haven experiences a major earthquake, 3/5ths will attribute it to gentrification.

As someone who has lived downtown for over ten years, I have been torn about the bus routes as someone who uses mass transit myself. It is a matter of balancing concern and convenience for people who use mass transit, and the environment, both noise and literal soot pollution and crime. Having said that, the absolute BEST solution is to move the connections from Waterbury especially AWAY from the green. That may sound elitist or classist but over the years opiod users come in from out of town and litter, swear, fight, urinate, spit, shout and pass out. I feel for these people, but why bus them right into the center of town, literally? Can we not have a hub on State Street? Walking downtown near 900 Chapel is now a disconcerting experience. The state is already paying to treat these patients, and the taxpayer has to endure CONSTANT AMR ambulance noise downtown responding to overdoses. Why not simply move the buses away from the green? One used to be able to relax downtown on it, read a book and enjoy a coffee, but the buses themselves are so old, polluting and outdated it makes us look third world. Even Bridgeport has new and environmentally friendly buses. Finally, the mere idea that it is taking OVER FOUR OR FIVE YEARS to move a bus route demonstrates precisely what is wrong with the state. Red tape at its worst!