Within about 500-1000 feet of highways is some of the worst air quality. This is also why cities that have highways ripping through their centers have much higher rates of residents with asthma. Not to mention the noise pollution would be incredible and noise also contributes to reduced health.

Sorry but your proposal is basically another NIMBY idea. Build affordable housing even if it makes rich people sad

nice try officer

Gulf beach in milford has parking spaces right next to the beach that face the water and charles island

The view of the city from the top of East Rock is a really cool sight to take in!

I know it was an incredible sight! It's actually happened a few times at the new intersection of the route 34 connector and orange st. There's red light runners essentially every single cycle of the signal because people are flying off the highway and not following the reduced speed limit signs in advance of the signal (although I don't fully blame them, nothing was done to change the design of the road to make it feel less like a highway) so there's been some targeted enforcement there.

Repeal seatbelt laws! This is a loss of our freedom of choice!

There's also no such thing as a "green light camera" and nothing in the bill is wholesale banning right turn on red. In dense downtown areas with a lot of pedestrian traffic, restricting right on red absolutely makes sense, in rural areas, not so much.

And regarding automated enforcement, do people really think stationing armed officers at a couple intersections around town to catch red light runners is the best means of enforcement? A camera works 24/7 and frees up officers to attend to actual police matters and not just traffic duty. I've watched officers pull people over for a couple days at a big problem intersection in New Haven - the issue is that once an officer is busy issuing a ticket, the intersection is completely unenforced for the next 10 minutes. Traffic duty is a strain on our officers and we have the technology to fix it. For the most part, the people scared of automated red light / speed enforcement are the ones who have enjoyed breaking the law to save 30 seconds on their commute.

I live in a 1BR with gas heat so my UI electric is only for cooling and appliances. I used 232 kwh this last cycle. Is your heat electric too? 941 kwh is insanely high

flight radar 24 shows it was just chillin up and down the railroad between grand and 91. maybe some kind of inspection?

lol whatever nimby. i also grew up in the east rutland area and i love those new apartments they put in and i hope they do more around town to give people options on living in milford!

People want to move to Milford. Do you want the city to keep developing single family homes on farmland/woods where you need to own a car and contribute to traffic, or do you want existing lots near transit to be redeveloped to allow multifamily units?

+1 for milford, although the rent might not be that much cheaper as the land use is mostly single family homes and not too many apartments. Lots of great spots to hang out in town with different vibes and it would probably be best for your fairfield/new haven situation given the metro north line. Some new apartments just went up by the train station but if you need to go out further, there are covered bike lockers.

Biking in the winter is fine once the roads are plowed, just need to put on a jacket and gloves. And taking the bus is going to be a lot cheaper than ubering everywhere

thank you for proving my point

You can absolutely guarantee that on any post regarding a car driver hitting a person in the road, whether it's on reddit, the new haven independent, on scene media, local news, etc; there will *always* be victim blaming without knowing a single detail. Drivers love to project their roadway dominance onto every situation because they're the same people that get annoyed when someone crossing the road delays them by 3.9 seconds in racing to the next red light.

There's a security gate at either end. I've only ever seen city or government vehicles able to go through the whole tunnel. But the State St entrance is how you get to the 360 State / Elm City Market parking garage, you have to turn before the security gate.

complaining about traffic while actively contributing to traffic

I'm in my late 20s and I walk around downtown proudly wearing UConn gear head to toe lol. Never got the sense that anyone really cared, I think everyone is too busy to be passing judgement

Got it, just thinking that if you’re concerned about traffic and you’re looking to move somewhere, don’t intentionally put yourself in a place that forces you to commute by car and contribute to traffic

Why not live closer to where you work?

get yourself an authentic new haven slice at the sbarro in union station

Thanks for the concern, Pete. It was designed to handle larger vehicles as well, so I just checked it again with a 57' tiller in AutoCAD Vehicle Tracking, which is a very conservative program, and it makes it through just fine in the directions that would make sense for a responding vehicle. The sharp movements (Yale S to Chapel W, Chapel W to Yale S) would not be logical routes given the location of fire stations in the city and availability of more suitable parallel roads.

yes

The 206 CTtransit bus services Tweed and the buses are still free. Not sure where you live but it originates from the downtown green and heads straight there. You do need to call up CTtransit and request that the bus stops there in advance though.

The cycletrack is elevated with a retaining wall there because that area was an existing small hill to begin with. Since it's under the drip line of the overhead trees, there were concerns that cutting down the hill would severely damage the roots of the trees, so the cycletrack was graded in a way that it would sit on top of the hill and not require excavation in the critical root zone.

you want me to predict exactly when the first crash will be....?