So here’s what’s happening. Connecticut Transit buses will start shutting down service at 4 p.m. By 6 p.m. they’ll be completely suspended until further notice. (CT Transit buses cover New Haven, Hartford, New Britain, Stamford, Waterbury, Meriden, Bristol, and Wallingford.) Metro-North is totally changing its afternoon schedule. See details here: http://mta.info/supplemental/mnr/mnr_weather_info.html. You should really pay […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

about I-95. See here: http://www.theonion.com/articles/i95-diagnosed-with-highway-cancer,30893/