 ConnDOT Commissioner Jim Redeker In 2007, after a troubled widening of I-84, a reform commission reported that the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) “badly needs fundamental change.”
TSTC analyses indicate that ConnDOT has been slowly improving since then, and we sat down with Commissioner Jim Redeker, who has headed the agency since last March, to talk about his work. He will be speaking at tomorrow’s transportation financing forum in Hartford.
TSTC: How did your work at NJ Transit prepare you for the commissioner job?
Commissioner Jim Redeker: I think that Connecticut is much like New Jersey was 30 years ago: there’s not a lot of transportation-oriented development happening, there’s still opportunity for new investment in transit and opportunity to improve branch lines. And I really came to try to make a difference there.
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Transit for Connecticut, TSTC, and several other groups are sponsoring a forum on transportation funding in the state (and not a minute too soon). Emil Frankel of the Bipartisan Policy Center will deliver the keynote; Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Commissioner James Redeker will speak as well.
The event will run from 9am-12 on [...]
Bike Walk Connecticut is looking for an Executive Director to help them make car alternatives safe and feasible in Connecticut. Applicants have until January 31st to get their materials in—click here for more details.
Photo: Mira Hartford
Last week, the Connecticut Department of Transportation provided a friendly holiday reminder to transit riders that the first of three scheduled 4% fare increases will take effect on January 1, 2012. The fare increase really is a gift that keeps on giving—it will be the first of three consecutive 4% [...]
 NHTSA's data shows a decrease in fatalities per vehicle mile traveled.
In New York, Connecticut, and many other parts of the country, travelling by foot has gotten more dangerous. A recent analysis from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that pedestrian fatalities in car crashes rose by 4.2% between 2009 and 2010. [...]
Governor Malloy and FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff at the signing agreement on Monday. (Photo: Scott Vargas/FoxCT)
Apparently 13 is a lucky number for Central Connecticut transit riders and businesses. That’s because after 13 years, Connecticut and the Federal Transit Administration have finally signed off on a Full Funding Grant Agreement for the Hartford-New Britain [...]
Goodwin College's new campus in East Hartford, CT is being built on a former brownfield site.
As a way to jump-start the state’s economy, the Connecticut General Assembly passed a $626 million bipartisan jobs bill last month. Included in the jobs bill were some important transportation and land use investments, as well as [...]
Stratford plans to reorganize the area around its rail station and promote transit-oriented development. (Click to view larger.)
Last week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced the approval of the state’s first ever transit-oriented development assistance grants. During the Rell administration, Tri-State advocated for over three years for the release of $5 million that [...]
The Putnam Memorial Bridge connects Glastonbury and Wethersfield in central Connecticut.
For years, livable community activists, including current and former elected officials, have advocated vigorously for pedestrian and cycling access to the Putnam Memorial Bridge, oftentimes in the face of consistent ConnDOT refusal.
Earlier this month, however, the Department announced that the debate [...]
ConnDOT's Eugene Colonese loads a bicycle onto a prototype rack being tested on a Metro-North train at Union Station in New Haven on Thursday.
Metro-North Railroad officials are testing bike racks on the railroad’s newest rail cars, the M-8s, which are being rolled out on the New Haven Line. The agency had prototype [...]
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