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At Thursday's protest at Tweed ...
... Alder Smith (center) addresses the crowd, alongside Alders Miller and Cupo ...
For the second Thursday in a row, demonstrators gathered by Tweed New Haven Airport to protest Avelo’s contract to carry out deportation flights for the Trump administration.
The crowd was three times bigger than last week’s — and saw local, state, and federal politicians turn out to show their support.
Hope Chávez: "There's always something you can do."
Pastor Jack: "We should all be outraged by this outrage [of deportations]."
Tweed’s board chair doesn’t plan on boycotting Avelo Airlines — as he seeks to stay away from a deportation-contract controversy he said the airport has no control over.
Robert Reed, the chair of the airport authority’s board of directors, presented that bid for neutrality after activists turned out to the board’s latest monthly meeting to press the agency to take a stand against the airport’s busiest flyer.
AG Tong: "It is clear all they intend to do is take state support and make money off other people’s suffering."
Avelo’s CEO told the state’s attorney general that he can see a copy of the budget airline’s deportation contract — if he submits a Freedom of Information Act request to the relevant federal agency.
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Sara Amato, Lisa Bassani, and Kathy Gonzalez (right) collecting signatures at Nathan Hale ...
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... to fight against city's new exit and roundabout plans for Tweed.
The Elicker administration plans to build a new airport exit and roundabout at Burr and Dean Streets to address heavy traffic near Tweed — prompting pushback from some Nathan Hale parents who are concerned that cars will now be directed towards an already “hectic” school zone.
Alders (except for Sal DeCola, second from left) to Avelo: Cut it out!
Avelo boycott, at the top of the Change.org "popular" list.
Twenty eight of 30 alders signed a letter calling on Avelo Airlines to immediately end any contracts it has to run deportation flights for the Trump administration — while the number of signatures on an online boycott campaign surged past 28,600.
Sen. Prez Looney: Avelo's actions just the latest example of "caving to government dollars at the expense of human rights."
(Updated) Outrage continued mounting from both the grassroots and elected officials Wednesday against Avelo Airlines’ decision to run deportation flights, as more than 14,000 people (at last check) signed onto a boycott petition.
Alder Marx (left): “I’m concerned about scooters continuing behaviors we’re already seeing: not stopping at red lights, using phones.”
The Veo scooter and the proposed parking sites, as outlined in a city presentation.
Now that streetside e‑bike rentals have rolled into New Haven, are e‑scooters next?
Alders on the City Services and Environmental Policy Committee weighed that question, as they advanced a proposal to allow 250 rent-per-ride electric scooters in downtown New Haven.
Avelo CEO Levy, at Tweed in 2021: DHS contract "too valuable not to pursue."
A budget airline decided to run deportation flights for the Trump administration to make up for financial struggles spurred by increased competition at Tweed New Haven Airport.
AG Tong, at Tweed in 2019: "Deeply disappointed" in Avelo.
State Attorney General William Tong has some questions for Avelo Airlines.
Eight questions, to be precise, all in regards to why the budget airline has decided to “profit from and facilitate these atrocities” by running deportation flights for the Trump administration.
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Avelo will start deportation flights out of Arizona in May.
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Mayor Elicker: "For a company that champions themselves as 'New Haven’s hometown airline,' this business decision is antithetical to New Haven’s values."
(Updated with comments from Mayor Elicker) The budget airline that has made Tweed its East Coast hub is now working with the Trump administration to run deportation flights out of Arizona.
Pleased passenger Kaye Pugh: “I like smaller, friendlier airports.”
Chris Smith, from Meriden, had his flight out of Tweed to Charlotte cancelled at the last minute, got little help on site, and he was number 71 waiting on his telephone for customer service for rebooking or refund.
Hamdenite Anna Collins, on the other hand, was over the moon at how smooth her flight was back from Houston, where she was visiting her grandmother. Leaving from Tweed instead of Newark saved her hours of travel with two rambunctious little ones, and the price was right. Amazing, she quietly declared.
Between those two poles of pleasure and pain was also a range of views on the flying experience courtesy of the two discount carriers, Avelo and Breeze, in and out of the rapidly growing Morris Cove airport.
City Engineer Zinn: This project presents "a generational opportunity to create a first-class active transportation connection."
Looking north on Whitney, from Canner: Road diet en route.
The city’s Engineering Department plans to wrap up final designs for the northern section of a long-delayed, traffic-calming reconfiguration of Whitney Avenue this month — with construction expected to start later this year.
Tuesday afternoon snapshots of a handful of commuters on the Green revealed bus riders who actually felt quite positive about their bus-taking experiences, if less so about the atmosphere of smoke, noise, and negative behaviors that often surrounds the hub.
Their stories shine a light on what’s working, and what could be a lot better, about New Haven’s state-run public transit system at a time when the hub of the city’s hub-and-spoke bus network is on the verge of some major changes.
Bless prepares to ride on the Wexler Grant track Wednesday with fellow second-graders completing a pilot bike-safety course.
Eighteen second-graders checked their tires and chains, fastened their helmets, and set off on two wheels Tuesday as the first cohort of a new New Haven safe-biking generation.
Dottie Green (right): "You should be able to go to any town anywhere on the bus."
Adrian Huq took a quick break between classes Tuesday to join a Transit Equity Day event on the Green — where they called for free bus rides for people 18 and under, before rushing to catch the 234 on Church Street to head back to school.
After more than six months of compiling data on speeding, red light running, and local “roadway geometry,” the Elicker administration has submitted a 365-page report to the state’s transportation department — and hopes to install automated traffic-safety cameras by next spring.
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Avelo steps on Breeze's big week.
The race is on — as one budget airline announced four more flight destinations from Tweed, a day before another budget airline plans to kick off its tenure at the Morris Cove airport.
UNH student Priyanshu Agwal, who was struck and killed on Whalley in October 2023.
When Aman Agwal sleeps, his brother Priyanshu visits him in his dreams. Sometimes, he rides a scooter, the exact one that he was riding when he was struck and killed by a car — during a hit and run that, a year later, has resulted in an arrest.
“Sometimes he comes in my dream, and he just plays on his scooter,” Aman said during a Monday morning press conference at police headquarters. “I wish I could do something.”
Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto at the announcement of $25 million in "Move New Haven" Biden Bucks.
Connecticut’s transportation chief is stepping on the gas — to get public-transit paperwork in to Washington before a new presidential administration takes over.
