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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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Dec 9, 2024 2:16 pm
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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.
Sherry Chapman: “The trauma to families is immeasurable and life lasting."
342 flags marking each life lost on CT's roads since last November.
Carri Roux had expected to find her son, Luke, back at the house after she finished walking the dog. But he was missing.
He never made it home.
Two years later, at a locally hosted memorial for lives lost on Connecticut’s roads, Roux described how scenes from that horrible day remain “etched” in her memory — and how a serious statewide focus on traffic safety could prevent future tragedies.
The city's most popular bike share station, at Orange & Linden.
Nearly 500 different people e‑biked more than 4,500 miles across more than 2,700 different trips in the first month of the city’s revived bike share program.
... will soon be turned by Yale into a pedestrian utopia.
More lighting, moveable tables and chairs, a stormwater teaching garden, and an eco-friendlier “community plaza” open to pedestrians and bikes but not cars — except during Yale move-in and move-out days.
All of that is on tap for a portion of High Street, as Yale planners unveiled early-stage designs for how a city-owned downtown block will be transformed by summer 2026.
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At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Temporary office, ticketing, and passenger-waiting trailers can stay for another three years on Tweed’s New Haven side — as the regional airport works to build up a new terminal in East Haven by 2027.
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The infamous Kimberly-Boulevard intersection.
Raised crosswalks, designated left-turn lanes, elevated bike lanes, and improved signaling are coming to the intersection of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard and Kimberly Avenue — after that state-owned intersection saw nearly 200 car crashes in two years.
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Union Station, get ready for some new neighbors ...
... at the TOD coming soon-ish to the east parking lot?
Four developers are in the running to build up a state-owned surface parking lot adjacent to Union Station — as part of a transit-oriented development that is likely still several years away from breaking ground.
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Welcome back, bus pass kiosk!
For the first time in four and a half months, downtown commuters can purchase all-day passes and ask about bus schedules in person — at the upgraded bus ticket kiosk on the Green, which is now back open.
At Tweed for Avelo's first flight to Puerto Rico, last November.
Tweed’s operators are looking to keep in place for another three years temporary office, ticketing, and passenger waiting trailer buildings on the New Haven side of the airport property, as they continue to try to relocate the terminal to a new larger permanent structure on the East Haven side.
City transit director Sandeep Aysola: This is "the single largest grant the city has received for transportation" in a long time.
Coordinated traffic signals, raised intersections, safer pedestrian crossings and two directions of car traffic will be coming to a 1.6‑mile stretch of Chapel Street by 2029 — or, maybe, sooner — thanks to an $11 million federal grant newly received by the city.
