Category: Access
05
Oct
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National Week Without Driving: Day Four
by Kerri Ana Provost
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We’re most of the way through the National Week Without Driving, which is when people who regularly drive — especially those in decision-making positions —...
01
Oct
Miles and Miles
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It only takes one trip to a farmers' market to recognize how upside down most of our supermarkets are.
01
Oct
Safe Streets Connecticut: September 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Drivers killed five pedestrians in September 2023 in Connecticut. That’s 39 preventable deaths of pedestrians and cyclists, so far, this year. I’m writing this in...
30
Sep
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A Little Something (October 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Trick-or-treating on a pedestrianized street is always better than that travesty known as trunk-or-treating
28
Sep
Transit = More Than Trains
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s Thursday. This week has flown by. Instead of cohesion, a list: By now, you’ve probably heard about how CT DOT has proposed cuts to...
24
Sep
Bollards!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After this dry cleaners in West Hartford’s Bishops Corner was smashed through twice by cars in the last two years, massive, highly visible bollards were...
19
Sep
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Goals
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“The aim of climate activism isn’t to be ideologically pure, nor is it to erase the sins of the previous generations; it’s to ensure that...
18
Sep
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Where The Missing Sidewalk Excuses End
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This weekend I was up in West Hartford’s Bishops Corner and chatting with a fellow bus rider who had walked to one of the nearby...
14
Sep
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PARK(ing) Day
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Tomorrow (September 15, 2023) is PARK(ing) Day, something Hartford participated in a couple of times about ten years ago and then ceased to, perhaps prematurely....
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