Category: Transportation
09
Nov
Another Fatal Pedestrian Crash in West Hartford
by Kerri Ana Provost
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In September 2021, the driver of an SUV crashed into a three-year-old boy on West Hartford’s Oakwood Avenue at the intersection with St. James Street....
03
Nov
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Safe Streets Connecticut: October 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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As of publication, it is known that drivers have killed at least 55 pedestrians/cyclists, so far, this year in Connecticut. We will most likely learn...
03
Nov
E-Joy
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Although CTtransit’s electric buses launched in early September, it took me a full two months before getting to ride on one. I don’t know if...
28
Oct
Tobacco Trash
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Cigarette trash bins have been added to some of the bus shelters in Hartford, but I know that the identifying stickers were not originally on...
23
Oct
What’s This?!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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You’ve probably seen another version of these around Hartford. There are white posts on Wethersfield Avenue next to the bicycle lane, as well as at...
07
Oct
What’s This? What’s This?!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Longtime visitors to this site no doubt recall reading that sidewalks are not decorative borders, even if they’re routinely obstructed by people who believe the...
19
Sep
Access Aisles: Not Secret Short-Term Parking
by Kerri Ana Provost
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One time, it’s a man in neon orange sneakers, neon yellow t-shirt, and athletic shorts — obviously on his way to or from working out....
15
Sep
Sigourney Street Station: A Stop on the “Bus to Nowhere”
by Kerri Ana Provost
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State Senator Joe Markley — a republican repping Cheshire, Prospect, Southington, Wolcott, and Waterbury — should be eating his words. People who ride the bus...
10
Sep
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Fall Foliage, Forget the Car
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Some of the places you can go without needing license and registration.
03
Sep
Safe Streets Connecticut: August 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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. . . in which we talk about the inconvenient truth that it doesn't start getting darker in October, but at the summer solstice in...