By: Georgia Lobb Last year, the NYPD issued over 70,000 speeding violations to automobile drivers. A scary reality about that statistic is that a large percentage those violations took place near or in school zones. Transportation Nation recently published this graph to bring this issue to light: Photo Courtesy of TransportationNation.com The circles represent locations […]

By: Georgia Lobb The Ridgefield Press reports that average gas prices in Connecticut fell 1.9 cents last week. That makes the state average $ 3.87. To view a complete list of gas prices near you (including the cheapest prices in your area), go to GasBuddy.com and type in your area code.

By: Georgia Lobb In 2004, a study called the Bike Trail Master Plan began in Ridgefield, CT.  It proposed the construction of bike paths to connect parts of the town, which is covered with thin, windy roads that are nothing less than treacherous for pedestrians and cyclists. But as soon as the plan came to […]

By: Georgia Lobb In today’s exponentially growing tech world, consumers can be overwhelmed by the amount of information and services to choose from. This doesn’t exclude commuters. GoCanvas.com lists over 500 transportation-themed applications, which are all designed in some way to help you with your commute. There are more than 100 apps for the MTA […]

Move over, North Carolina. There is new validation of decades-old claims that the first powered, sustained and controlled flight took place in Bridgeport, Conn., rather than Kitty Hawk. The pronouncement has Bridgeport’s mayor ecstatically recommending that the state get new license plates reading “First-er in Flight.” New research this week prompted the internationally-renowned publication Jane’s […]

No, but seriously. Not just for us commuters, but for retail and housing developers as well, because it adds to their costs — and therefore makes things more expensive for the rest of us. In a story from the New Haven Independent this week, developers at a panel discussion cited minimum parking requirements as one […]

Some encouraging numbers from yesterday’s Stamford Advocate: 7,726 bicyclists were logged boarding Stamford’s public buses last year. That’s a new record, up from 7,630 in 2008.Bus ridership was recorded at over 3.4 million last year, up from 3.3 million the year before. That’s a 3.5 percent increase from the year before, and a 15 percent […]

By: Georgia Lobb Photo courtesy of The Atlantic Wire Due to recent budget cuts across the board of transportation, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that over 170 air traffic control towers are set to shut down on April 7th, according to Transportation Nation. These closures will affect small and medium sized airports. There […]

Norwalk — Paula Sanchez estimates that when Hurricane Sandy was at its fiercest, the water in her first-floor apartment went as high as 3 1/2 feet. It was the worst flooding she’d ever experienced. But it wasn’t the only flooding. “I have floods all the time,” Sanchez said, sitting on her living room couch. “I […]

By: Georgia Lobb Eerily following the story we just posted on the deadliest roads in Connecticut for pedestrians, two men were killed in separate incidents that happened on Saturday and Monday. One accident was on the road that’s been identified as Connecticut’s most dangerous for pedestrians: Post Road. 68- year old Bruce Tabackman was crossing […]

This is as funny as it is infuriating. A screenshot from a video taken by a snow plow driver while gleefully burying cars after Nemo. (Courtesy kfor.com) During Nemo 2013, this snow plow driver, calling himself “Black Dogg,” posted a YouTube video of himself driving the streets of Boston burying cars under snow. It’s complete […]

By: Georgia Lobb Photo courtesy of ghsa.org The year 2011 marks an increase in what was previously a steadily declining rate of teen driver deaths, according to a Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) report earlier this month. The GHSA reports that driving related deaths of 16 and 17 year old drivers have risen a staggering […]