Category: Design
14
Nov
Roundabout Progress
by Kerri Ana Provost
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When a major construction project in your neighborhood completely disrupts your commute, how are you expected to not try to get a closer look on...
01
Nov
Access Activism Commentary Design Frog Hollow Hartford Local News Long Reads Quality of Life Reader Tip South Green Transportation West End
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in October 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Raquel Vasquez, just hours after killing Madeline Feliciano and critically injuring Oscar Ramos-Garcia at the intersection of Park and Washington in Hartford, was arrested and charged...
21
Oct
Activism Asylum Hill Community Cultural Interest Design Free Get Outside Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Progress
Community Values
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Louisa Barton-Duguay, with assistance from other artists in the community, recently improved a wall at the corner of Farmington Avenue and Marshall Street thanks to...
09
Oct
30?!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Whose idea was it to set the speed limit for Gillett Street 10 MPH above what is reasonable for a residential road? Time to evolve,...
01
Oct
Access Activism Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Quality of Life Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in September 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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On September 16 at 8:17 PM, a woman (who remains publicly unidentified several weeks later) was struck at 1310 Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield. For...
01
Sep
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in August 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There were at least two incidents in August, just in Connecticut, in which a motor vehicle was used as explicitly as a weapon. A teenage...
02
Aug
Access Activism Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Food Frog Hollow Fun Get Outside Hartford Local News Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Progress Quality of Life Reader Tip
Take a Seat
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A little bit of Capitol Avenue has been reclaimed for use by people with the installation of a picnic table and a dumpster repurposed as...
02
Aug
Activism Commentary Cultural Interest Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Municipal Transportation
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in July 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Preventing crashes is preferable to dumping all our energy into punishment, but let’s pause to think about the justice aspect of traffic injuries and fatalities....
01
Aug
Access Construction Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Hartford Local News Long Reads Parks Progress Transportation
A Thing of Beauty
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Sixteen years. That is how long I have been hearing about a plan to redesign the massive failure scarring the Frog Hollow neighborhood. At one...
29
Jul
Commentary Cultural Interest Design Downtown Environmental Interest Free Get Outside Hartford History Long Reads Municipal Parks Reader Tip Rivers
Corning Fountain: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This is a polite letter about the Corning Fountain, in Hartford’s otherwise beautiful Bushnell Park. An antique dealer has informed as that the fountain is...