Category: Transportation

26 Sep

Russ Street: Slow Your Roll

by Kerri Ana Provost

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A day after the City of Hartford newsletter announced that changes would be “coming soon” to Russ Street, fiberglass planters were installed along the road,...

24 Sep

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“I Don’t Know How To Explain To You Why You Should Care About Other People”

by Kerri Ana Provost

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The phrase that seems to most sum up 2020 is this: “I don’t know how to explain to you why you should care about other...

22 Sep

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Okay, Now We Can Say Goodbye to Summer

by Kerri Ana Provost

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What better way to welcome Autumn than by taking a stroll around the Ancient Burying Ground? Occasionally I come upon historic photos of Main Street...

01 Sep

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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...

23 Aug

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Weird Travel

by Kerri Ana Provost

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It’s not that I was eager to see New Haven, specifically. I needed any change to my scenery, only had one day off, and for...

15 Aug

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Tired of Prayers and Promises

by Kerri Ana Provost

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If I end up mowed down by some reckless driver on a road that the City of Hartford has neglected to fix, don't waste time...

07 Aug

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What’s this? What’s this?

by Kerri Ana Provost

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It’s a sharrow. A sharrow is: (a) a shared lane marking (b) a portmanteau of “shared” and “arrow” (c) a portmanteau of “shitty” and “arrow”...

02 Aug

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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