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2 years

Hartford CT before the highways vs after the highways 1934 2019

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

When cities are built for people rather than cars, they can thrive Hartford, CT

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4 years

Probably my favorite (new) building in the city of Philadelphia!

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@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

How the hell is it up to $8.25 to ride the air train 4 miles from JFK to Jamaica. That’s crazy. $2 a mile to ride an automated transit system Not to mention still need to buy a metro card to have that honor of getting ripped off

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@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Okay, I’ll admit. That expanded corridor and higher ceiling at Penn station is really nice. Steel beam= old ceiling height

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@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

State Street in New Haven is getting a major upgrade turning a 5-lane car highway in front of a train station with a road diet into a new neighborhood center with TOD, a protected cycle track, and narrowed roadway. Little late to the news but this is great!

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@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Scars of highways unbuilt Salem, CT

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1 year

Wow wow wow wow wow. Cannot wait

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9 months

What if Hartford had a vision to restoring the city? I know it sounds crazy but there is literally a river under this totally unnecessary highway stub, let's uncap it. Let's just freaking do it

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Great photo showing the scale of the highways built to serve downtown Hartford. The interchange across the river takes up twice the acreage as downtown Hartford itself does without factoring I-91 or I-84 in Hartford proper

eweather

@Eweather13

2 years

Looking down over Hartford CT.

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

You cannot make this up, they airport is about to spend $1.24 BILLION on adding 1,950 parking spaces to the airport That’s $635k PER SPACE. How is this real life?

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

3 years

Let’s talk Nassau county, a county that has lost population over the last 50 years but not from lack in investment. Billions of dollars are poured into infrastructure projects like the @LIRR third rail project - however it’s not helping because of zoning

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

8 months

HAHAHA, we officially have a cost estimate for electrifying the 60 mile Hartford line, $2-3 billion. A task that should be <$5 million per mile. Help me do the math please 60*$5m = $300m This have to be a joke, right? @sandypsj @2235astoria

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@Urban_Dispatch

4 years

“Redlined” UWS “Landmarked” UWS

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@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Why are there so many parking lots near the 125th st metro north station? This is one of the best connected spots on the island. Seems like a waste (I’m sure it’s bad zoning)

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@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

One of the most transformational rail projects in America would be a cut and cover subway through JC (red line) and a NJT commuter rail station under the heights (blue circle)

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

How homes evaporate: 1) 80 homes proposed in town 87% white with $135k median household income 2) neighbors complain 3) proposal amended with 16 fewer homes and 8 more parking spaces - now 64 homes 102 spaces 4) Neighbors complain and request max 30 homes

Simsbury is 'lacking' affordable housing, but residents push back on proposal

A planned affordable housing project in Simsbury has been criticized by some for its...

www.nhregister.com

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

4 years

@travis_robert Just moved to philly (from NY) and ended up on a street like this (no parking. Essentially zero through traffic). And it is absolutely incredible Quiet as can be, no honking, air is cleaner, kids play in the street

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

8 months

Building permits issued by year and type in CT since 1966 Really crazy to see data like this: 1. First we outlawed building multifamily housing in walkable places 2. Then we ran out of farms to build single family sprawl on 3. Now we have a housing crisis (whoopsie!)

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Found some planning docs for the Union Station relocation project in Hartford. These are far from final but moving the train station across a (widened 10 lane) highway from the office district is not it. Look at all! that! new! parking! i-84 really has to go, full removal

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Lol. What is this monstrosity in Stamford? Here’s how stupid this is: -$88k per space on an above ground garage or like 3x average -monthly parking + pass to GCT = ~$500 or 14 years to breakeven on this investment (1 space =max 1 customer per day)

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

@KRDemCT Went to IKEA in New Haven this past weekend and watched a couple squeeze their purchases into the cab of their pickup truck while leaving the bed completely empty. I stood there laughing at the absurdity 😂🤣

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

There we have it, the highway plan remains a highway plan and does nothing outside of downtown to repair the damage down by i-84. Hartford gets stuck with more Highway than before It is the 1960s all over again for Hartford. Utter failure

Greater Hartford Mobility Study

@HtfdMobility

10 months

We’re unveiling a vision for the future of transportation in the Greater Hartford region! The Greater Hartford Mobility Study is aimed at reimagining & reconnecting Hartford to the Connecticut River, East Hartford, & North End neighborhoods to downtown.

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

Remarkable findings: It pays to be welcoming to new neighbors. Families in a pro-housing town paid $4,900 less in taxes over 10 years vs. baseline Your neighbors who block new housing are literally costing you money, everyone loses in our housing crisis

Opinion: In CT towns with more housing, lower property tax rates for all

Residents in the top 40 CT towns to issuing housing building permits saw their tax rates less than those in the lowest permitting towns.

ctmirror.org

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

The recent rail grant application by Amtrak, MA, and CSX for $108 million has been confirmed to be for the establishment of the Inland Northeast Corridor with 2 daily trains to travel New Haven to Boston via Hartford and Springfield h/t to @MSzafranski413 for the find!

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

3 months

Fairfield CT has 62k residents and is the 11th largest municipality in CT. It has three rail stations on the busiest railroad in the nation with one-seat rides to Manhattan with 98 trains per day It is not some rural small town, it has a median home price of ~$850k

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

Every city that removes highways flourishes because of it, every highway in Hartford should be removed. Yes every single one* *91 can stay and be shrunk north of Trumbull and South of Charter Oak Bridge

Hayden Clarkin

@the_transit_guy

7 months

It was a great idea for Providence to remove the highway from downtown. (2011 and today)

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

The unique second staircase requirement we have seems to be a major driver to 1) preventing small scall apartment buildings 2) keeping new apartments from having cross ventilation 3) preventing "family" size apartments

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Dawned on me this morning it’s a fear of Asians. Asian families are moving from flushing/bay side out to Long Island in multi-generational households. By legalizing ADUs you’d create space for them, by blocking they feel like they can stop the flow (they can’t)

Tom Suozzi

@Tom_Suozzi

2 years

Governor Hochul’s radical Accessory Dwelling Unit legislation will eviscerate local zoning control and end single family housing as we know it across New York. (1/2)

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

Why are we in a housing crisis? Well one man held up homes for 30 families for 10 months despite presenting "no valid legal argument for overturning the council’s approval of the condo project," & now walks away with zero consequences after adding untold legal fees to the project

CT Insider

@insider_ct

10 months

Judge upholds Glastonbury's approval of plan to convert former tobacco warehouse into 30 condos

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

I-84 was and remains a colossal mistake and should be torn down

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

19 days

New HSR proposal is about to drop, it is Hartford centric so let’s do it 😉 100 minutes NYC-Boston means under an hour to each from Hartford

Gothamist

@Gothamist

19 days

NYC to Boston in 100 minutes: a high-speed train proposal picks up steam

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

15 days

Picture this: We build a statewide mid-distance transit system that serves town centers all across the state. Some routes use steel wheeled trains, some rubber wheeled trains (nice buses) Connecting walkable town centers at transit centers. Low cost initial rollout. Thoughts?

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

What happened was unexpected and very sad and I’m glad no one was killed. However the subways remain one of the SAFEST ways of moving millions every day In the two days since the attack, ~80 people been hospitalized and ~6 people have died from car crashes in metro NYC

NorthJersey.com

@northjersey

2 years

Following the attack at a subway stop in Brooklyn, both regular citizens and experts alike are wondering if it's possible to make mass transit less vulnerable to attacks without grinding the whole process to a halt.

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Urban Dispatch

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2 years

In 2004, Hartford razed 700 public housing units and replaced it with a commercial center anchored by a Walmart, late 90s/early 00s was a really a low point in Hartford urban planning

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@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

Friends, I can’t tell. Is calling for the north end of Hartford to be leveled for a highway racist? or nah?

mRNA Madness 💉💉💉💉

@mRNA_Madness

7 months

@Urban_Dispatch @Aphantomknight1 How about we level the North End of Hartford above the baseball stadium and move I-84 there as a beltway around the city.

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

6 months

If you were to design a high speed rail corridor from New York to Boston, how would you route it looking just at this population density map?

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

Driving distance to Grand central station: Philadelphia: 96 miles Hartford CT: 112 miles Amtrak travel time to New York Penn: Philadelphia: 84 minutes Hartford: 178 minutes Imagine the impact knocking an hour off travel time would have for Central CT?

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

5 years

The... the #busway ... what have a you done!?! First Saturday without traffic cops. Good reminder of how worse car clogged 14th street is. #ProtectThePaint Cc: @NYC_DOT @NYCTBus @2AvSagas

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

3 months

It is remarkable to watch town after town in Massachusetts vote for allowing TOD after NIMBYs claimed how popular maintaining terrible zoning is Almost like building housing in a housing crisis is popular if you actually ask people and not just listen to the loudest yellers

Jonathan Berk

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3 months

Congratulations to North Andover on joining the MBTA Communities Club after town meeting voted 535 to 253 to pass revised zoning last night. 🥳

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

6 months

Connecticut once had fantastic vibrant cities, they were intentionally demolished for the convenience of the suburban motorist I think we can have them again

DFA New Haven

@DFANewHaven

6 months

Downtown Bridgeport, circa 1947 (just at the moment when electric trolleys were yielding to internal-combustion buses)

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2 months

"I can't believe Bridgeport hasn't been revived like other cities after all that economic development effort" That economic development effort: 🤷

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7 months

@the_transit_guy Hartford 😉 City itself is very small at 120k but is 17th densest metro in the country and over a million total in the metro. Might be a technicality

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@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

If this is your towns idea of pedestrian safety your town needs new leadership

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@Urban_Dispatch

6 months

If you make transit useful, people will use it. @Amtrak trains on the @hartfordline already over 150,000 riders in Amtrak's fiscal year 2024, trending 40% above last year's levels

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

Is there anything more satisfying than time competitive useful transit? Thanks for the lift @CTfastrak

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@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

A quick primer on how to properly design a bus route that people will use @CTTRANSIT CC: @MattLesser 1) Make it linear so it is easy for users to know where they will get on/off and keep it short (<15-20 miles) and straight

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@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

Connecticut is literally so bad at designing bus routes

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

Surface parking lots to become -> car free community plaza and 258 homes in Middletown, great improvement over current state!

CT Insider

@insider_ct

9 months

Ample parking, ‘affordable luxury’ housing, public space on tap for downtown Middletown

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

A single man who held up 225 families from having a home for over a year just sold his townhouse and dropped the lawsuit He netter a $500k profit in 11 years, people who block new housing are not disinterested benevolent citizens

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

Here is my view on is the correct highway mobility plan for the Hartford region: 1) Reroute through-traffic around the urban core (Adds an avg of 4 miles of travel for through traffic) 2) Remove limited access highways from all areas marked in red (full removal) 3) Save $billions

Greater Hartford Mobility Study

@HtfdMobility

9 months

Join us for upcoming public meetings for the Greater Hartford Mobility Study! ⬇️ 📌 November 9, 6–8pm 📍 Chrysalis Center 255 Homestead Ave, Hartford, CT 06112 📌 November 16, 6–8pm 📍 Cultural Community Center 50 Chapman Pl, East Hartford, CT 06108

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

New Haven just won a $12.1 million grant to help advance the Long Wharf Responsible Growth Plan and Park. What a transformational project this will be! Housing for thousands, waterfront park land, regional retail and office space all bikeable and walkable from Union Station!

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

Exciting news for Manchester CT! They just secured a state grant for a complete street rebuild of their downtown main street. This town of 56k is about to get a major face lift, from a wide four lane hostile speedway to a safe engaging downtown

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@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

Can a single photo better represent our values and lack of care for those outside a car than this is one? This underpass is 40 feet wide, a standard vehicle lane is 10 feet wide, a standard sidewalk is 5 feet wide. Can you help me do the math? Why isn’t there a sidewalk?

AmusedToDeath🥥🌴

@AmusedToDeath1

9 months

@Urban_Dispatch This sort of reminds me of my options a few months ago. I wanted to go to redscroll records, and was thinking of taking the train to Wallingford. But the only real access point involved this lovely stretch being transversed here by an elderly woman(i biked instead)

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@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

This is the roadmap, copy + paste across CT neighborhoods near schools

Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲

@EngineerDustin

9 months

This mew-ish protected bike path in Grand Rapids, MI is looking good!

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@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

Now remove the highway and you have a seamless integrated thriving downtown

Hayden Clarkin

@the_transit_guy

7 months

Building housing on downtown Hartford's surface parking lots near Union Station could accommodate 30,300 residents, add 1.2 million sq ft of retail, and create 10 acres of green space. It's a no-brainer if our leaders were serious about housing and transit.

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@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

$10 billion?!?!? You have to be kidding me, how could anyone in today's day and age sign off on this plan to cram more vehicles into and through the urban core of Hartford 1963 is calling and wants its highway planners back

Hartford Courant

@hartfordcourant

10 months

CT transportation study: $10B in dramatic changes: redesigned highways, new bridges over CT river

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2 months

Would you believe me if I told you this was Connecticut? 📍 Peoples State Forest Barkhamsted, CT

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@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

If these plans for Amtrak Hartford service come to fruition talk about a game changer for the Capital region, HOURLY through running service on NER down to DC. We are going to look back in 10 years and not believe how far we've come

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

5 months

Nice to see this framed correctly: amid housing shortage, local control results in no progress being made

Hartford Courant

@hartfordcourant

5 months

Amid housing shortage, two CT suburbs reject massive housing developments

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

8 months

Old New England towns that were build before the automobile are actually perfect environment for transit. They have: 1) Compact street grids 2) Mixed uses 3) Roads connecting walkable town center to walkable town center Transit demand here is inter-town, not really intra-town

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8 months

@sandypsj @2235astoria Hahaha, okay then. Way to pick the biggest outlier in the history of ever and said "yep that is our number" - Intentionally burying the project to keep a non-highway project from happening. CTDOT highway planning at its finest

Dungeon Master Tim 🌻🚲🔰

@tstaub

8 months

@Urban_Dispatch @sandypsj @2235astoria It's based on Caltrain costs, not local projects

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@Urban_Dispatch

8 months

For cost comparison, the LA-Las Vegas high speed rail is an $8 billion project for a brand new high speed 218 mile electric railroad. This estimate is the same per mile as brand new high speed rail but just for the electricity part

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@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

If you make transit useful, people will use it. @Amtrak trains on the @hartfordline already over 100,000 riders in Amtrak's fiscal year 2024, trending 48% above last year's levels. Happy New Year Connecticut!

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@Urban_Dispatch

4 years

It remains illegal in most of Long Island to build housing near LIRR stations (or anywhere) So much so that the population of Nassau county has actually decreased by 5% since 1970 while housing cost have increased by 1300%(!!!) Why again are billions being spent on this?

LIRR

@LIRR

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The LIRR Expansion Project is on track for completion in '22. Despite the pandemic, the LIRR continued to forge ahead, using safety protocols to continue work on the project. Once completed, it'll expand capacity while reducing congestion and delays.

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5 years

@lukerosiak @Lydia_Beeyoobee *With admittedly little knowledge of where you live* One of biggest benefits to deregulation and reducing government barriers to housing is it allows cities and inner suburbs to densify while dramatically reducing development pressure on “outer suburbs” leaving more nature

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@Urban_Dispatch

2 years

The day CT stops trying to turn Hartford into a tall suburban office park is the day the city soars

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@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

What does environmental racism look like? Slicing a highway through tree filed neighborhoods and a signature city park Pope Park Hartford 1934 -> 2018

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@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

75 new homes and walkable main street district coming to Windsor Locks, now THIS is how you leverage a new train station!!! 🚂🏠

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@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

A fun city distance and 🚂 speed Comparison: Philly->NYC: 87 miles; 1 hr 15 minutes; avg of 77 mph Hartford->NYC: 113 miles; 2 hr 50 minutes; avg of 39 mph Hartford->Boston: 101 miles; zero direct trains Hartford is a top 50 US Metro, Hartford needs better train connections

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@Urban_Dispatch

16 days

It is really hard for people to believe how dire the housing crisis is. Let’s use these numbers: say a teacher makes $85k per year in Fairfield county, (CT median household inc is $90k). They can “afford” (barely) a $340k home with 20% down There are exactly 134 available

SeeingRedinCT

@CTRedIn2024

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@Urban_Dispatch More 💩 The average teacher in CT makes over $80k working 185 days. So A. Can afford median home in CT on their own B. Can afford a lot more if two teachers in the household. C. Nurses make 3k more than teachers, but have to work 260 days to earn that

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1 year

How housing disappears in three parts: 1. Proposed 123 homes with 56 parking spaces and retail across from soon to be built train station 2. Council asks for more parking - downsized to 70 homes, 76 parking spaces, no retail 3. "Still not enough parking"

Enfield residents call revised development plan a 'bait and switch'

The Enfield Town Council will be voting later this month on whether to convey town-owned...

www.ctinsider.com

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1 year

150 new homes proposed 500 feet from the @CTfastrak bus way! Building will be under West Hartford's new TOD district and uses affordable housing and rooftop solar incentives. As long as it complies (which it should) it will be auto-approved in no more than 65 days. Efficient gov

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You know the housing crisis is bad when the new President of Aetna opens his interview with talking about how terrible the Connecticut Housing market is for people who move to the state for a new job

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7 months

We shouldn't accept that streets are able to be immediately cleared of snow for safe passage but sidewalks are reliant on individual property owners Every walkable place in Connecticut should consistently clear sidewalks as well as they clear the roadway

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1 year

West Hartford talking about a major safety upgrade at the center of town after 3 pedestrians died last year... but not until 2026. The lack of urgency is infuriating

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11 months

Just one lane away from solving traffic Hartford, CT

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11 days

Remember when this exact measure failed in Connecticut despite having a @CTDems super majority? How is it possible we accept that children go hungry at school?

Governor Tim Walz

@GovTimWalz

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In Minnesota, students are fed breakfast and lunch – no questions asked. It’s saving families thousands and making parents’ lives easier. That’s an investment I’ll defend every damn day.

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2 months

It is straight up depressing to ride the New Haven line and have every, literally every, station surrounded by massive parking infrastructure Welcome to Connecticut, where train access requires an automobile

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28 days

Why is @CTfastrak the #1 BRT in the nation? This is why:

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2 years

Bristol CT is using $5.2m in fed pandemic money to build a 184 space parking garage ($28.2k per) in its downtown area to "break generational habits and get people back downtown" The garage will offer free parking once completed, something tells me its not the lack of parking...

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2 years

77 new homes proposed to replace an abandoned car dealership in Windsor CT, a nice 10 minute walk to the @hartfordline - One of a series of pending new housing projects in town, great stuff

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6 months

Was just listening to @CTTRANSIT Along the Lines podcast about the new railcar fleet, Don't think I had realized they are going with 2x2 seating! Great to see, vast improvement and awesome decision for riders

Here's a look at Connecticut's "sexy" new rail cars for the Hartford Line

The new rail cars on the Hartford Line will have new seating, Wi-Fi, power outlets and...

www.ctinsider.com

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6 months

And I mean this totally seriously. The State of CT should buy them out. Water and sewer systems should be public AND be run regionally People complain plenty about the MDC but they run a good system with top rated water and are spending billions to improve the system right now

Hartford Business

@HartfordBiz

6 months

Breaking: Eversource Energy announced Tuesday evening that it may sell its water distribution business, Aquarion Water Co., to “reduce equity needs and improve regulatory diversity.”

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1 year

A suburban fever dream: 5-story parking garage topped with a rooftop beer garden

Shelton approves downtown parking garage with rooftop beer garden

The Planning and Zoning Commission approved plans for a six-story structure with 162...

www.sheltonherald.com

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@Urban_Dispatch

3 years

One of the benefits of allowing new construction, is it forces existing landlords to upgrade their properties or lose tenants High violations + high occupancy = a broken housing model

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@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

Sure, your initial reaction may be "that is tiny I would never live in that" but instead ask, what is better? A 250 square foot studio that is safe, secure, and has everything you need or a 50 sq ft tent? I know what I would choose

Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️

@SukritGanesh

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Is this the perfect tiny apartment? I recently got a SmartDraw account and designed this 250 sq. ft. micro-studio with all the features of a normal apartment (including a washing machine and queen bed). I'm sure many would prefer this to living with roommates! What do you think?

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

It is crazy to think that during the urban renewal period CT was contemplating bulldozing 1) the statehouse 2) Bushnell park and 3) old statehouse. Imagine if these were now highways and parking garages?

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

4 years

@alykatzz @rachelholliday Fine. Totally get the need for an emergency hospital. NY was desperate in early April But not using these facilities for centralized quarantine or shelter for the homeless is crazy! Ready built space that is now being dismantled...

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@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

Connecticut is literally so bad at designing bus routes

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@Urban_Dispatch

5 months

Can't stop thinking about the CT fire marshal who testified today that they conduct annual fire safety inspections in MF building & find violations therefore they are far more dangerous than SF buildings despite 1) not inspecting SFH & 2) CT fire deaths are overwhelmingly in SFH

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

1 year

How much money could the Port possibly get from charging these fares? Assuming all 6.7 million per year paid $8.25 that’s $56 million (not a correct assumption) Or 23 years worth of free AirTran transfers to Jamaica and Howard beach for the cost of a single one parking garage

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

4 months

Hartford Line trains continue to fill up, trending 43% above last year's record ridership. This represents just the @Amtrak trains which run the Hartford Line (inclusive of the valley flyer) Quite an impressive feat

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

8 months

Wonder what “character” means? “My fear with (allowing) continued structures like this is you will see this town denigrate itself into a Southington or a Plainville or a New Britain.” For context: Simsbury-95.3% white Southington-89.6% Plainville-87.1% New Britain-38.1%

Hartford Courant

@hartfordcourant

8 months

Opposing plan for 600 units, residents say increased apartments ‘disgracing’ town character

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

As I previewed, Connecticut should partner with @Amtrak / @AmtrakConnects to build a new @hartfordline spur to serve Bradley Airport. Let’s dive into the details shall we? 1/🧵

Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

I’ll do a bigger post at some point but I’ve become convinced that we need to build a Hartford line (through running) spur to serve Bradley airport. Major car trip generator, and cost expense of visiting/returning to the region Would be Hartford-Bloomfield-Bradley-reconnect @ WL

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

7 days

It’s a good thing Connecticut has Hartford

Where is this?

@CsabaSzekely7

8 days

@TerribleMaps Number of skyscrapers in each US State.

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

9 months

Lots of great CT projects to reduce bottlenecks and up speeds. Personally most excited about more Hartford line double tracking!!

RAIL Magazine

@RAILMag

9 months

Here’s the list of NEC projects: Basically replaces bridges & tunnels across the NEC, including Gateway and B&P, along with a few studies. No Long Bridge (not actually on the NEC). Very little will go to increasing service off the corridor. $16.4B awarded.

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

Having a one seat ride on @Amtrak NER is truly awesome. Platform was full, over 60 people boarding a 6:30 am weekend train Just an appreciation post for the investment the state has made in the @hartfordline . Let’s keep building on it

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

One more word about this, because sidewalks are cleared by property owners and roads are cleared by the city, the curb becomes a "no man's land" and is often an inaccessible dangerous icy mound Imagine if every intersection had a mountain of ice you needed to drive up and over?

Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

7 months

We shouldn't accept that streets are able to be immediately cleared of snow for safe passage but sidewalks are reliant on individual property owners Every walkable place in Connecticut should consistently clear sidewalks as well as they clear the roadway

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@Urban_Dispatch

10 months

Where would you add passenger rail in CT? The ones I'd target are: 1. Hartford line two sided spur to Bradley Airport (Green Arrow) for regional travel effects 2. Hartford-Norwich-New London - NL-Norwich is too short to justify rail but extended it would! 3. SLE eastern ext.

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Urban Dispatch

@Urban_Dispatch

20 days

Hahahaha. Shit NIMBYs say: Apparently CT can’t have townhomes and small homes on a grid because we are “an original colony” Ummmmmmm…… that’s all that used to exist……

Maria Weingarten

@MariaWeingarten

20 days

@tvilinskis The difference is many other states are not economically stagnated "Soft Markets" and they also had planned expansion development. CT, an original colony, lacks infrastructure and has density, so solutions must be nuanced. Read the WestCOG report.

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