By Georgia Lobb A storm called Nemo is brewing, and is set to hit the North East hard tomorrow. No doubt it’ll hit our already-beleaguered public transit systems hard. Photo Courtesy of Weather.com Weather.com reports that Nemo is “is now poised to become the latest example of a powerful, potentially historic, February storm.” Though the […]
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$75 million taken out of transportation fund to plug budget hole
That’s one of the main takeaways from Malloy’s budget announced yesterday when it comes to transportation. Read my story here: https://ctmirror.org/story/19049/transportation-budget.
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GOP lawmakers: Budget plan breaks transportation promises
Coming from a supposedly “pro-transportation” governor, the proposed budget of Dannel Malloy has a lot of transportation advocates confused. “It’s hard to follow the dollars here,” Joe McGee, of the Business Council of Fairfield County, said Wednesday afternoon. “I work with these numbers all the time. I know these budgets. And I’m confused. What am […]
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BREAKING: Effects of Malloy’s budget on Transportation
I’ve had about 10 minutes to look through a really big budget book, so bear with me. Keep in mind, this is the PROPOSED budget that the legislature needs to approve. What I can glean right now is — Bus fares will increase from $1.25 to $1.50 beginning in 2014. ADA paratransit fares will increase […]
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Stamford’s failed attempt at energy innovation cost taxpayers tens of millions
This is the second of two parts examining the Stamford sewage treatment plant’s long history of problems and their causes, the financial implications for local residents and environmental consequences for the entire state. Part I is available here. Stamford — On a Wednesday evening in December, an overwhelmingly unpleasant smell wafted over the parking lot […]
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Lots of ideas, but where’s the $$$?
A breakdown of the $1.2 billion Special Transportation Fund — which is sometimes used for things other than transportation. Connecticut’s lawmakers have a lot of ideas on how to improve transportation in the state. And I mean a LOT of ideas. They were talked about for nearly six hours at a meeting and public hearing […]
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Striving for innovation, spending millions, Stamford leaders ignored major problems
This is the first of two parts examining the Stamford sewage treatment plant’s long history of problems, the financial implications for local residents and environmental consequences for the entire state. Part two appears here. Stamford — In the summer of 2010, residents in the Shippan neighborhood began complaining of strong, unpleasant smells wafting through their […]
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Mobile Transportation Applications Mean Less Trouble Commuting? Hopefully.
By: Georgia Lobb The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT) just announced a series of mobile applications that are intended to make commuting easier for passengers in Connecticut. They are listed here on DOT’s webpage. These applications, which are accessible via iPhone or Android devices, include maps, traffic advisories, and public transit announcements. CDOT hopes that these apps […]
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A Windy Night in Fairfield County
By: Georgia Lobb Last night, the wind speeds nearing 40 miles per hour had my house swaying from side to side like it was a hand built log cabin. In the middle of the night, I heard a crash from the bathroom. The vibrations from the wind had caused our (poorly installed) shower rod to […]
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Part 3: Cold Weather Commute & Damage Control
By: Georgia Lobb Photo courtesy Fairfield Patch In a battle to keep operating costs down, keep transit running on time, and to keep customers happy, public transportation employees have their hands full this winter. If you’ve waited for a train, bus, airplane, or subway recently you know it’s not a mystery that cold weather has […]
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Bridgewater plan faces another potential setback: climate change
Stamford — There’s already a lot of skepticism about Connecticut’s $115 million deal with Bridgewater Associates, announced in August. Critics say taxpayers’ money would be better spent on a cash-strapped school system, for example, than in helping the world’s largest hedge fund move its headquarters from Westport to Stamford. New Jersey and New York had also […]
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BRRRR Part 2: Commuting in the Cold
By Georgia Lobb BRRRRRRRR at the Bridgeport bus terminal this week. This morning, my brother who lives in Washington, DC, posted on his Tumblr: “I am the person who runs to the metro in the cold.” I texted him to ask why he was running, not walking. “The cold! It’s the reason I don’t take […]
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Farmington Valley opposes export of water to UConn in Storrs
The University of Connecticut in Storrs needs more water — but some people are doing their best to make sure that water doesn’t come from the Farmington Valley 35 miles away. They said as much at a packed public hearing on the issue held Tuesday at the UConn Health Center in Farmington. “We are from […]
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You know things are bad when the Onion makes a joke…
about I-95. See here: http://www.theonion.com/articles/i95-diagnosed-with-highway-cancer,30893/
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More money for bridge repairs — but not much
Thirty years after the deadly Mianus River Bridge collapse, hundreds of bridges on Connecticut’s local roads are deemed to be in “poor” condition by the state — and many have not been inspected in more than two decades. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposal Wednesday to borrow $15 million for bridge repair and maintenance this year will […]