One hiking trail — the Ives Trail — will arc from Devil’s Den on the Redding-Weston border north into Danbury, then west into Ridgefield.

A crowd of roughly 40 residents joined the Enfield Town Council Tuesday evening to hear the presentation of the proposed Transit Center, located at the intersection of Main and North River Streets in the Thompsonville section of Enfield.

Improved customer communications and quicker decisions to cut back or suspend service to spare the Metro-North New Haven Line’s aging trains from snow related breakdowns are two strategies that will help keep Connecticut commuters moving during harsh winter conditions this coming winter, Metro-North President Howard Permut said.

A small but lively group of residents armed with well-thought out questions gathered at Durham Town Hall Wednesday night, June 22, to hear Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) officials describe plans for a summer 2013 bridge repair on Route 17 north of Coe Road. Read more here: Route 17 bridge project to take place summer
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In an attempt to balance the upcoming state budget, one area that will see severe cuts is the state’s Municipal Grant Program. The $4 million program, which provides funds to municipalities and transit districts for senior and disabled transportation, was reduced by 25%, according to 9 Town Transit Executive Director Joseph Comerford.

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.

The prospect of a balanced budget in Connecticut is unclear now that an agreement with state employee unions appears at risk of collapse. But one positive highlight from the state’s budget was the shielding of more transportation revenue from being diverted to the State’s General Fund.

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.

Westport Transit District officials have confirmed they are likely to impose a series of service cuts to local bus routes proposed in response to a $40,000 budget reduction approved last month by the Representative Town Meeting.

The General Assembly recently passed HB 6200 to allow tolls to pay for an 8.5-mile extension of Route 11 from Salem to I-95 in Waterford. Viewed through a narrow prism, the bill’s language allows tolls to finance the construction of one road’s extension. But the problem is the bill’s language actually allows for tolls everywhere.

It’s very hard to serve sprawl by transit. If folks live helter-skelter all over the countryside, they are pretty much relegated to driving. If we want to make transit work, two things have to happen: People need to live near it, and it has to go where they want to go.

Interested municipalities have until this Thursday, June 9 at 4 pm, to submit questions regarding the Request for Applications. Final proposals and Memorandum of Understandings are due on August 4.

Non-commercial rest areas on Interstate 84 at Willington, Conn., are scheduled to close July 1 due to budget cuts, according to the Connecticut Department of Transportation. More next year.

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.

Staff of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign accepted a 2011 EPA Environmental Quality Award at a ceremony in downtown Manhattan on Friday. According to the EPA, the award is “the highest recognition presented to the public” by the agency and is given to nonprofits, businesses, community groups, educators, and individual citizens who “have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to protecting and enhancing environmental quality and public health.”

The State Bond Commission approved spending $89.7 million to construct the long-planned Hartford-to-New Britain busway, despite bipartisan complaints that it should be reconsidered by the General Assembly because of cost increases.

Crews stopped working on the highway in 1972. Now, nearly four decades and plenty of false starts later, the state legislature is once again considering completing the highway by borrowing money and then using tolls to help pay for it, Peter Marteka reports for The Hartford Courant. Those voting on the proposal should come down
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CTLCV is rolling out a new e-letter called Connections to provide brief updates on transportation news, issues, policies and legislation that impact your quality of life here in Connecticut.

A legislative committee has decided that tolls should be used to pay for the completion of Route 11.

An editorial in the Republican-American newspaper of Waterbury and a letter to the editor of The Day in New London shwo that not everyone is on board with the idea of building a busway from New Britain to Hartford.