This week, Connecticut Post reporters have been walking, biking and taking trains and cars to work and facing the challenge of getting around mass transit’s missing links. Read more about this story by clicking on this environmental headline above.
This week, the Alliance for Biking and Walking released its 2012 Benchmarking Report, and the timing is impeccable. As Streetsblog points out, the release coincides with the soon-to-appear national surface transportation bill, and in the tri-state region, it comes just after state legislatures have gotten into full swing. With statistics, case studies and loads of
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The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) and Metro-North Railroad (MNR) are requesting customer feedback on the pilot study of bike mounts on the New Haven Rail Line.
Dave Bonan Gave Away His Car In 2001 And Has Since Logged Thousands Of Miles On His Bike
After nearly two decades on the drawing board, supporters of a planned 37.3-mile bicycle and pedestrian path on the historically designated Merritt Parkway hope a pending $1.4 million study to consider the envisioned route will help move the project forward.
New Haven’s intrepid cyclists politely crashed an I-95 groundbreaking with a show of pedal power and a written plea to the governor: While you prepare to spend another $357 million on cars, consider spending some more money on bike paths too.
With its unique assets, you might think the country’s leaders would be foursquare behind the two-wheeler and support pro-biking policies. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.
Bicyclists are finding numerous flaws and inefficiencies in ctbikemap.org, which launched this year to alert riders of hazardous conditions on state roads.
Georgette Yaindl, a bicycle advocate from Hawaii is relocating to West Hartford to head the Bike Walk Connecticut advocacy group.
The arrest of an off-duty Windsor Locks police officer in the Oct. 29 accident that killed a 15-year-old bicyclist is prompting legislative leaders to consider revamping standards by which candidates for police work are trained and evaluated. via Windsor Locks Bicyclist’s Death Spurs Legislative Interest – CTnow. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post
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In its continuing efforts to cut campus pollution, University of Connecticut staff and student leaders will actually be taking a cue from the university’s past. The Undergraduate Student Government is working with the university’s Office of Environmental Policy, the Homer Babbidge Library and the EcoHusky student group to create a program called “UConn Cycles.” via
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Bicycles and pedestrians are beginning to get some long-overdue attention as road users. About 150 people gathered at Central Connecticut State University for the state’s first Bike-Walk Summit Saturday, Nov. 13. Participants learned about the latest developments at the Connecticut Department of Transportation, heard about national trends in community planning such as “Complete Streets,” got
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Paul Hammer will explain the issue of bikes on trains at the next CT Rail Commuter Council meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the CT DOT offices in New Haven.
UConn’s Storrs campus is initiating a bike sharing program that will ease transportation around the sprawling campus, improve traffic congestion, help the environment and likely burn a few calories for those who do the pedaling.
In October, Paul Hammer, John Binford and Jongwook “Wookie” Kim officially launched CaBike!, a dream of theirs almost two years in the making.
The recently-unveiled route for the Naugatuck River Greenway, a proposed 22-mile regional trail stretching from Thomaston to Beacon Falls and designed to promote local residents’ enjoyment of the outdoors, if built will run through several undeveloped borough-owned parcels. via Greenway would pass through brownfields | Citizen’s News. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post
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Once a month, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Elm City Cycling, a New Haven nonprofit bicycling and advocacy group with more than 400 members, coordinates Bike to Work Day to encourage riding in New Haven. This effort began five years ago, said Elm City Cycling board member Melinda Tuhus. via New Haven cyclists promote
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A 7 1/2-mile stretch of streets from East Hollywood to Boyle Heights that’s usually traffic-clogged becomes a peaceful thoroughfare for bikes, skateboards and pedestrians Sunday. For a few surreal hours Sunday, the car was stripped of its crown in Los Angeles and pavement was turned into playground. Well, in part of the city, anyway. Gasoline
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A bike path planned to run the length of Park Avenue in Bridgeport is only hitting first gear in the city’s long-range Be Green 2020 master plan.For the last two years, the city’s Sustainable Design Assessment Team has set a “greener” Bridgeport as one its major priorities in building a better place to live. Ted
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The next time someone puts up a building with 10 parking spots, the city wants two spots carved for bicycles, too. Cycling enthusiasts applauded the proposal—and pushed for more. The discussion took place at last week’s City Plan Commission meeting in City Hall, where city officials talked about ways to “green” some of its regulations.
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