Category: Transportation
05
Feb
Extinction Event
by Kerri Ana Provost
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More than a year since the Superpedestrian LINK scooters left Hartford, their remains are still being discovered. The bone bed is the south side of...
03
Feb
Safe Streets Connecticut: January 2025
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“The biggest consideration in how fast people drive isn’t the posted speed limit or how traffic signals are timed, but the street’s design speed[…]. Traffic...
28
Jan
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A Little Something (February 2025)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Here’s your curated mostly-Hartford (sometimes, not) event calendar for February 2025. What makes this list? Events that I would either attend or recommend to a...
05
Jan
Safe Streets Connecticut: Look Back at 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After sending 6,100 people to the emergency room for treatment between 1978 and 1986, and causing the deaths of three children, the Consumer Product Safety...
02
Jan
Safe Streets Connecticut: December 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A look at the preventable pedestrian and cyclist deaths in Connecticut during December
23
Dec
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Continued Improvements to Capitol Avenue
by Kerri Ana Provost
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We were fully into December when the hardened centerlines with bollards arrived. These help to keep motorists in their lane and less likely to make...
14
Dec
Hartford Goes Hard
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Frog Hollow neighborhood just got hotter thanks to the recent addition of these fine quick-build treatments at the intersection of Broad Street and Capitol...
07
Dec
Tree Lighting a Fire
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A few hundred people gathered in New Britain’s postage stamp Central Park on a Tuesday night in December as thick, fluffy snowflakes swirled around. Children...
01
Dec
Safe Streets Connecticut: November 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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As of November 30, 2024, drivers have killed 61 pedestrians and cyclists in Connecticut; that’s only the deaths that we know of. We begin and...
30
Nov
WeHa: “What Even Are Plans?!”
by Kerri Ana Provost
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They’ve got it all backwards. A few years ago, when West Hartford had the opportunity to redesign Trout Brook Drive, the high speed stroad that’s...