Can we innovate some late nineteenth/early twentieth century style housing and transportation programs please?

Plotting the restoration of Byzantium

Growing up in other parts of CT I’m very glad the only highway I experience in regularity is 395. It feels like what you describe, but I swear 295 in RI the people ARE all angry and stressed

I love trains too! Gngbng? I haven’t heard of that model rolling stock? I’ll have to look it up, probably a Japanese company. Let me take a big sip of coffee and google Japanese gngbng

The cross sound tunnel is never happening, but the inland route between Hartford and Providence. Very well could

Who let you out of The Day comment section Chris?

Brooklyn, CT in shambles

As long as we have the COGs this won’t happen. Right now municipalities get to have their cake and eat it too. Zero incentive to merge when they can get their services paid for by the state/other larger munis while giving up no authority.

If you’re not familiar with your council of government, look into it. We have regional services, just not regional government.

EB expansion, offshore wind projects operating out of New London, Great Wolf Lodge, Preston Riverwalk, Business Park North in Norwich…..so we’re going to expand the housing supply along with all these jobs right?

A lot of districts bake a couple snow days into the calendar, which this year have gone unused. Superintendents are playing fast and loose with this storm because it won’t add an extra day to the school year.

Hi welcome to how the majority of the world shops

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr.html

I can’t speak for federal DOT, but I’m sure alternatives were studied and this was deemed the best solution. Could be sub base/coast guard related, could have just been prohibitively expensive. Could have been too difficult to work around all the rail infrastructure surrounding the bridge

Oh my sweet summer child.

The project was stalled for a bit waiting for funding but has been underway and will continue to be for the next decade or so. Thus far has been superstructure work that hasn’t necessitated much disruption, but that will change in about 2 years iirc. The bridge turns 80 this year and is in need of major rehab. Of course, it still needs to be operable throughout the rehab as well, which is why it takes so long

Fuel taxes only work if they’re high enough to cover the cost. You’re not paying for the roads you use, you’re being subsidized by the people who don’t drive

Noted car owning drivers: the urban poor

Absolute fantastical wet dream transit map and we still can’t get a god damn line to southie

So do you struggle with reading or were you just excited to respond to something the op didn’t say? They didn’t say blowing through a red light, they said passing cars stopped at a red light. You’re not required to que up behind stopped traffic.

If only drivers would too, maybe they wouldn’t kill so many tens of thousands every year. How many people were killed last year by a light running bike? Or by any bike collision? Maybe your priorities are a little completely ass backwards?

American Exceptionalism strikes again

$30/gallon juice!? Oh how the other half lives. Can’t believe that business model didn’t work out

But they have representation. What they’re demanding, as always, is over-representation.

I bet you’re as good at mowing down pedestrians as you are strawmen.

But, what point are you even trying to make with this one? That people are flinging themselves into the street at the last second as a car is speeding towards them? Maybe it’s worth taking a step back and ask why you’re not being taken seriously?

Go to any city or town center and spend an hour watching the intersections if you want a handle on the actual behavior here. Cars rarely stop for someone with their hand up at an intersection. Speeding on commercial and residential streets is as ubiquitous as it is everywhere. Distracted driving is rampant and not at all equivalent to someone walking on their phone. If you think the problem is people diving into the street at the very last second as a car is coming you’re living in a fantasy bubble.

Yes, thank you for providing further reference that peds have the right of way. I hope going forward now you join the fraction of drivers that actually obey traffic law. Or at least keep your eyes off your phone long enough to see the person

State law isn’t determined by your whiny sense entitlement.

https://www.cga.ct.gov/ps97/rpt/olr/htm/97-r-0173.htm#:~:text=A%20pedestrian%20generally%20has%20the,about%20to%20use%20a%20crosswalk.