Category: Access
24
Sep
What’s This on Wethersfield Avenue?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What it takes to get a flexpost-protected bicycle lane on one side of the street is (*checks notes*) multiple pedestrian fatalities and one gruesome recent...
21
Sep
Beginners’ Guide to the Car-Free Life: Welcome
by Kerri Ana Provost
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When you’re in Connecticut but West Coast wildfire smoke gets in your eyes, you must be feeling motivated to do something to slow the rate...
15
Sep
The Roundabout
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Everybody calm down. It’s not trash like the downtown Circle of Death near Bushnell Park. Besides giving pedestrians reasonable opportunities to cross, this one is...
10
Sep
Access Commentary Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Free Get Outside Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Parks South Green Summer
View of Colt Park
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It seems a person has to love and cheer for a place, or else be a total snob about it, slamming it in a “and...
01
Sep
Access Activism Beyond Hartford Commentary Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford Long Reads New England Regionalism Rivers
Beyond: Quabbin Reservoir
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you struggle with the ability to hold many complex, and at times contradictory emotions at once, visit Quabbin Reservoir. That’ll cure you. It’s in...
29
Aug
Access Activism Behind the Rocks Cultural Interest Downtown Environmental Interest Faith Food Free Fun Get Outside Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Music Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Transportation West End
A Little Something (September 2021)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Here is the curated event calendar for August September. As always, check with the venue/organizer to ensure that details have not changed: ADD TO CALENDAR...
11
Aug
Access Commentary Community Covid-19 Cultural Interest Downtown Free Fun Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Long Reads Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Summer
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 36)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This week the Courant published a hard truth, and what those of us reading the hard data for awhile already knew: Hartford’s vaccination rate, besides...
06
Aug
How Things Work
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Among the lessons of the last year and a half: there is a dire need for stronger, clearer science education and communication with the public....
21
Jul
Access Commentary Cultural Interest Downtown Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Long Reads Parks Transportation
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 33)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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On a recent jaunt through Brooklyn and Manhattan — seven miles of walking on one afternoon — I made a few observations. More than a...
Beginners’ Guide to the Car-Free Life: Groceries