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A rendering of one of the entrances to be built as part of Moynihan Station's first phase. To much fanfare, USDOT announced the winners of the stimulus’ TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants yesterday, with two coming to our region. New York City’s Moynihan Station project to convert the Farley Post Office to a train [...] The proposed plan for 100 College Street would replace highway right-of-way with an office/research building with ground-floor retail and a parking garage. It is the first part of a plan to replace New Haven's Route 34 with development and a connected street grid. (Click to enlarge.) New Haven is sprinting towards gold in the Highway [...] New Haven's "Street Smarts" campaign aims to educate all users on how to share the road. Grassroots bike and pedestrian advocacy has paid off in New Haven. Late last month, the city’s Board of Alders unanimously passed legislation creating a “Complete Streets Steering Committee” which will develop a complete streets policy which provides for pedestrians, [...] New Haven elected officials and advocates continue to fight what some are calling traffic “anarchy.” Late last month, Alderpersons Erin Sturgis-Pascale and Roland Lemar introduced legislation (viewable at the New Haven Safe Streets Coalition website) to establish a “Complete Streets Steering Committee” made up of alderpersons, New Haven agency officials, and city residents. The Committee [...] The traffic calming movement is sweeping New Haven, thanks to citizen action and the remarkable efforts of TSTC’s partners in the New Haven Safe Streets Coalition. The Coalition-sponsored petition, which calls on the City of New Haven to strictly enforce existing traffic laws and undertake specific long-term measures to reduce traffic injuries by 90% by [...] Support is growing for the City of New Haven’s proposal to remove the Route 34 highway connector, recreate the street grid, and develop housing, parks, and offices in the highway’s place. Late last month, a coalition of community leaders, advocacy groups (including TSTC), businesses, and local elected officials wrote to Gov. Jodi Rell asking [...] The Tri-State Transportation Campaign has co-sponsored a petition calling for the City of New Haven to take immediate action to improve traffic safety within New Haven – with the goal of reducing traffic injuries by 50% by 2009 and 90% by 2015. The petition asks that the city immediately step up enforcement of traffic violations, [...] This afternoon, New Haven community members will discuss traffic safety in the area around the Route 34 Connector. Speakers will include Michael Piscitelli, the director of New Haven’s Dept. of Transportation, Traffic, and Parking, and Dr. Kimberly Davis of the Yale University School of Medicine. The event is being held in memory of Mila Rainof, a [...]
A slide shows one City of New Haven vision for its post-Route 34 future. On Wednesday, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the New Haven Urban Design League hosted a public event, attended by approximately 150 people, in order to raise awareness of and increase support for the “tear-down” of the [...] L-R: New Haven’s Oak Street neighborhood in the 1950s, the area in the 1970s after the construction of the Route 34 Connector, and today. The negative impacts of postwar urban renewal — wanton highway construction, residential displacement, social fragmentation — are still felt in cities throughout America. New Haven, the recipient of more per capita [...] |
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