Search Results for: "Flower Street"
More Construction Planned for Broad Street
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The area around Broad Street and Capitol Avenue has always been congested around rush hour. This has steadily gotten worse with the closure of Flower Street to motorized traffic, then...
Reveal the Path to Nowhere
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you’ve been following the Flower Street debacle at all, you’re familiar with the CT DOT’s desire to “mitigate” the closure of a north-south route by creating an east-west one...
CTfastrak: “Stasis through Obfuscation” or “Flexibility”?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Walking into the Center for Contemporary Culture, one is surrounded by a half-circle of maps, seconds after having a pile of literature thrust into one’s hands. A long table, covered...
CTfastone
by Kerri Ana Provost
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While CTfastrak is attempting a series of public engagement meetings this month, it is simultaneously attempting to disengage one specific segment of the public: those opposed to the complete closure...
Under the Busway
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Yesterday the Department of Transportation held a reconsideration hearing for the ruling on Flower Street. This was requested back in November by Timothy Wilson, the Manager of Highway Design. When...
Eyesore Declined
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously denied the request for a special permit that would have allowed for installation of a changeable electronic billboard at 15 Flower Street. It is...
Billboard Proposal Does Not Account for Busway
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Tonight is the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, along with public hearing, regarding — among other things — a request for a special permit to install a changeable electronic billboard...
Another Request for Light Pollution Along I-84
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Hartford Courant is seeking a variance to install an electronic billboard on its building. The company has applied for a special permit for the changeable electronic billboard at 15...
Scenes from the Sidewalk: Installment 48
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It is not your imagination. Gridlock has gotten worse in the Capitol Avenue/Broad Street/Farmington Avenue/Asylum Avenue area this week. With Flower Street closed to through-traffic as of December 3rd, commuting...
Signs
by Kerri Ana Provost
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As of this morning, random stop signs remained on the side of Flower Street, right near the railroad tracks.