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Showing posts with label ct. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ct. Show all posts
Thursday, August 6, 2015

What if Amtrak cared about its Hartford riders?

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Welcome to another installment of our "What if?" series, where we ask what would happen if the people who ran our transit system t...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The challenge of our generation

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Rents are rising in cities across the country, and people who can’t afford the new rents have to go somewhere. At CNU 22 in June, Mike Lydo...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

The Eighth Borough

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Map: mapsof.net Some things that have been called the sixth borough of New York City: Philadelphia Governor's Island The New York Ci...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

We can't depend on the Northeast Corridor

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The big news this weekend is the major derailment and crash on the New Haven line between Fairfield and Bridgeport yesterday. The National...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Cap'n's Bookshelf: Two Coots in a Canoe and Becoming Odyssa

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One of my recreational pleasures is reading what I call self-propelled travel memoirs. I can't stand travelogues that are full of passa...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Why we can't have real crosswalks in New York City

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As I wrote the other day , Queens is full of "unsignalized" intersections, where one street has a stop sign and the other has none...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

A missed opportunity for rail-oriented development

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Another of the many things that make the overnight casino bus crash so frustrating is that even if there was no possibility of changing the ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Transport Azumah begins service to unconventional city pairs

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Today was the first day for Transport Azumah's new service between New Haven and Boston. Next week, Azumah will begin running buses o...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Transit versus highways in Connecticut

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Last week I argued that a two-way dedicated busway on the Long Island Expressway would help make bus service between New York and points no...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Transport Azumah to inaugurate New Haven-Boston service with unboxed bikes

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Last month I discussed strategic problems with New Haven transit advocates' campaign to convince Greyhound to run BoltBus service to Ne...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Faster, more reliable buses to Connecticut and beyond

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In the comments to the original Design New Haven post about wanting better bus service, some folks mentioned that the New York-Hartford Meg...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

New Haven bike-n-wifi bus update

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Following the comments on SeeClickFix is a little difficult because of all the repetitive "Another person wants this fixed!" auto-...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Greyhound is not a government agency

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New Haven residents, apparently, have spent so much time with government-run transit agencies that they've forgotten how to deal with a ...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Planning the next New York transportation network

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As I wrote in earlier posts , Paris's Regional Express Network (RER) of commuter/rapid trains was not simply designed to make connection...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Niantic Bridge gets stuck...

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The Day has the story . Fortunately, it was in the position where it disrupted boat traffic (mostly recreational) not train traffic. Anyon...
Friday, July 3, 2009

NYC-area bus networks - east vs. west

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The greater New York area has one of the best train networks in the country. However, there are some major gaps in this network. West of the...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Being proactive about the Niantic River Bridge

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Following up on last year's replacement of the Thames River Bridge in Connecticut, Amtrak has received $105 million in stimulus funds t...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Redundancy and the Northeast Corridor

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In my last post , I talked about the value of redundancy in transit networks. Connecting this back to our goals, I think this speaks more t...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

My head exploded

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Jim Cameron of the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council tells Newsday , "I don't know why we're talking about encouraging people t...
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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Don't Give Rail Infrastructure to Buses

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Whatever you may think about Bus Rapid Transit (and I'm not the biggest fan), I would hope we can get transit supporters to agree on thi...
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