Category: Meet Your Infrastructure
23
Dec
Design Frog Hollow Hartford Local News Meet Your Infrastructure Progress Quality of Life Reader Tip Transportation Winter
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...
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....
06
May
Access Climate Possibilities Downtown Hartford Meet Your Infrastructure Myth Busting Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: Week Three
by Kerri Ana Provost
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You’d think more people would have taken to heart one of the “lessons” from Ted Lasso — be curious. Life is more interesting when lived...
18
Jan
Access Asylum Hill Climate Possibilities Design Environmental Interest Hartford Meet Your Infrastructure Transportation
About People
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It doesn't matter if the system does not resonate with the haters who will never use it anyway.
05
Sep
Design Downtown Environmental Interest Hartford History Long Reads Meet Your Infrastructure North Meadows Parks Rivers
Footbridge
by Kerri Ana Provost
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FUN FACTS ABOUT THIS OVERBUILT MONSTROSITY AND ITS ENVIRONS The plan in 1977 was to tear down a pedestrian bridge so that I-91 could be...
25
Jan
Access Activism Commentary Design Environmental Interest Faith Hartford History Local News Long Reads Meet Your Infrastructure Parks Reader Tip Regionalism Transportation Volunteer
Take A Seat!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Elitist attitudes over who may use public space were not born yesterday. And it does not get much more stuck up than deciding who deserves...