by | Dec 21, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (80)
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A 4-foot bike lane between Edwards and Humphrey.
City transit planners Wednesday night received a fresh earful of impassioned pleas and conflicting advice from East Rockers as drivers and cyclists squared off about … Orange Street bike lanes.
by | Dec 21, 2023 10:27 am | Comments (15)
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The peanut’s shell didn’t crack.
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.
Continue reading ‘Want To Curb Emissions? Start With Transportation’
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.
Continue reading ‘Happy Holidays! = Bar Crawls, Valet Crunch’
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.
Continue reading ‘145 Embark On First Flight To Puerto Rico’
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.
Continue reading ‘Wanted: Public Input On 2-Way Street Conversion Proposals’
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.
Continue reading ‘$7M In State Aid Flows To Whalley Housing, Traffic-Safety Projects’
by | Oct 27, 2023 1:46 pm | Comments (9)
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Ward 12 Democratic alder candidate Theresa Morant.
A New Haven native and Yale New Haven Hospital secretary is running unopposed to become the next alder for Ward 12 — with a focus on finding some way to calm traffic on the neighborhood’s car-crazy stretch of Rt. 80.
Continue reading ‘Rt. 80 Traffic Top Of Mind For Next Ward 12 Alder’
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.
by | Oct 12, 2023 4:35 pm | Comments (12)
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Chris Murphy asks Raisa about her family as she shows him a photo of her daughter.
As 85-year-old Raisa pulled up a photograph of her daughter on her iPhone, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy took a break from walking across Fair Haven Heights to ask her a question.
“Is she safe?”
by | Oct 6, 2023 1:05 pm | Comments (1)
A new batch of $47 million in state money headed to New Haven will improve the lot of train riders as well as pedestrians and cyclists on car-crazy Whalley Avenue, among others in town.
Continue reading ‘State Bond Bucks Boost Whalley, Train Transformations’
by | Sep 28, 2023 12:23 pm | Comments (11)
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Greg Menotti, charging up his "impulse buy" Tesla ...
... at the Hotel Marcel supercharger station on Long Wharf.
Greg Menotti had a good month making money trading Tesla stock — so, as an “impulse buy,” he dropped $30,000 purchasing a name-brand electric car of his own.
by | Sep 11, 2023 12:39 pm | Comments (21)
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Speakers subject to the ordinance amendment.
Drivers blasting music too loudly from pricey speakers can officially face $1,000 fines — and the confiscation of their audio equipment — now that the Board of Alders has unanimously passed an amendment to the city’s noise ordinance.
by | Aug 18, 2023 7:28 am | Comments (35)
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Bikes for sale — not for sharing — at New Haven's current micro mobility hot spot: Devil's Gear.
More New Haveners may get the chance to ditch their cars, miss the bus, or pass on Uber — as the city’s parking authority looks to pedal a new path towards micromobility.
Continue reading ‘Parking Authority Eyes Bringing Back Bike Share’
by | Aug 15, 2023 4:15 pm | Comments (14)
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Dennis Serfilippi, Rodney Williams, and Darnell Goldson at Monday press conference.
Was a cyberattack that stole $6 million meant for the public school district’s school bus contractor an inside job? Was it carelessness on behalf of school district and city employees? What on earth happened that so much money could have been sent out erroneously?
Board of Education member Darnell Goldson raised those questions Monday during a press conference focused on just how little information the school board has received to date about the early summer cybercrime.
by | Aug 3, 2023 1:42 pm | Comments (25)
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City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at WNHH FM.
New Haven’s next set of bike lanes will be separated from car traffic — but not by “delineators.”
Continue reading ‘Zinn: Next-Gen Bike Lanes Reflect Infrastructure Lessons Learned’
by | Aug 1, 2023 2:30 pm | Comments (41)
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Movimiento Cultural: "Sing it with us! Hello Avelo! Hello Avelo!"
“¡Yo soy Boricua, pa’ que tu lo sepas!”
These shouts of celebration and of Puerto Rican pride rang out over Tweed’s tarmac as a host of city and state officials and airport boosters celebrated new direct flights from the East Shore to San Juan, Puerto Rico, starting in November.
by | Jul 12, 2023 5:23 pm | Comments (11)
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Time for cleaner buses.
Every single school day, New Haven’s 314 school buses spew out pollution fouling our air, increase the risk of asthma and even cancer to students and drivers, and exacerbate global warming.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: It's Not Too Late For Clean School Buses’
by | Jul 11, 2023 3:09 pm | Comments (28)
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Ronnie heading to a homeless shelter, with COMPASS's help.
The city’s non-cop crisis response crew pulled up to Union Station Monday night to assist a 78-year-old man into a van headed towards a newly opened homeless shelter in the Hill.
At the same time, at least six others watched from a nearby stretch of sidewalk where they prepared to spend the night — all while state and local leadership sought to crack down against a growing number of individuals without housing seeking refuge at the transit hub.
by | Jul 7, 2023 9:22 am | Comments (11)
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First Student buses, OK'd for another year.
The Board of Alders “reluctantly” approved a one-year, $30.7 million school bus contract between the Board of Education and First Student that would have been nearly $1 million cheaper had the school board not turned down an initial multi-year deal with the bus company.
by | Jul 5, 2023 2:47 pm | Comments (6)
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A 2022 New Haven Climate Movement “Stop Climate Freefall” rally.
Young climate activists are calling again for the Board of Education to set aside funds for free bus passes for students to help New Haven’s public school district reduce air pollution and make it easier for students to get to and from school.
Continue reading ‘Climate Call: Free Public Bus Passes For Students’
by | Jun 29, 2023 12:43 pm | Comments (26)
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Riding the bus up Dixwell ...
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... to be made faster, cleaner, more efficient, thanks to Bus Rapid Transit program, as described by state transit chief Garrett Eucalitto Thursday.
City, state and federal officials took a victory lap Thursday at a politician-packed press conference celebrating a new $25 million grant that will speed up and electrify bus travel on Dixwell, Grand, Whalley, Congress and Columbus Avenues.
by and | Jun 21, 2023 12:39 pm | Comments (19)
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City climate czar Steve Winter: e-bikes are a "big step to fill gaps in our transit system"
Eco-minded New Haveners looking to get out of their cars and onto two battery-assisted wheels will soon be able to apply for up to $1,500 in state-subsidized vouchers to help cover the costs of purchasing a new electric bicycle.
by | Jun 18, 2023 9:59 am | Comments (4)
A 36-year-old man lost his life in the latest crash on New Haven’s “Death Boulevard.”
by | Jun 16, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (20)
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State Rep. Roland Lemar on the legislature floor the day the camera bill passed.
Roland Lemar earned the right to take a victory lap this week. As long as he remains sober and below the speed limit.
Continue reading ‘How Lemar Prevailed In 12-Year Controversial Camera Quest’
