New Haveners Saying Yes to Safer Streets

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% [...]

Broad Coalition Calls on Gov. Rell to Support Route 34 Teardown

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 [...]

Groups Circulate Petition for Safer New Haven Streets

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 [...]

After Medical Student Is Killed on Rt. 34, Yale and City of New Haven Respond

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 [...]

Tearing Down the Route 34 "Disconnector"

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 [...]

New Haven's Road to Revitalization: Re-creating a Community from the Route 34 Connector

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 [...]