Jay Stange🇨🇦

Connecticut once ran on trolleys. Now it’s trying to undo a century of car-first planning Connecticut used to have a robust trolley system, extending all the way from Greenwich to Hartford.

Make transit affordable for those who need it. Make it fast and frequent for everyone. We CAN and SHOULD do both - prioritizing our walkable places - if we want CT to prosper.

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Fare thee well, Bobby!

Way to go Fairfield!

Pizza by the slice is an indicator species of a walkable neighborhood.

That’s a 15-year “loan” that will cost $183,848 including the down payment? Hard to imagine.

That’s a 15-year “loan” that will cost $183,848 including the down payment? Hard to imagine.

I didn’t analyze dats sources for walkability, but the report says 88 percent of folks in my town (West Hartfird) feel strongly or somewhat strongly there is bikeable infrastructure in the neighborhoods. We’ve made some good progress in the last few years, but this doesn’t square with what I know.

So we got to visit this intersection nightmare in Tampa, Florida, but we also saw lots of Low Speed Vehicles, EVs, ebikes, people walking and many sites where new active transportation infrastructure is being built. Not many buses, but Happy Holidays car-free Floridians!

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

There are few things on earth as good to eat as raspberry jam.

Tony: I grew up in Alaska, where the Solstice is a HUGE deal. I’m with you here. But why not show the days leading up to Dec 21 in your screen grab?

Are Federal Transit Grants Hurting, Not Helping, Public Transportation? | Strong Towns Three case studies reveal how top-down funding creates rigidity, waste, and systems that cities cannot afford to fix or abandon.

This ridiculous new post by Strong Towns correctly identifies a problem - we build too many failing transit capital projects - and completely misses the mark with its proposed solutions - stopping federal funding for them and instead making projects small and phased.

I just took off both my mittens and flipped him off retroactively.

Is this real?

And I’m not even talking about how hard we go in the paint here in CT to subsidize driving a 3500 pound car all alone with NO one but your climate change conscience riding shotgun.

Imagine if we could get the YIMBY transit experts in Connecticut to push back on DOT and the Governor as hard as they push back on fare equity campaigners. CT DOT recovers less than 20% of bus operating $ with fares and probably spends all that - if not more - collecting fares. Scarcity mindset.

Imagine if we could get the YIMBY transit experts to push back on DOT and the Governor as hard as they push back on fare equity campaigners. CT DOT recovers less than 20% of bus operating $ with fares and probably spends all that - if not more - collecting fares.

Freeway Fighters in CT! Thx for taking on the CT DOT lane building beast.

'I'm Always on the Bus': How Transit Advocacy Helped Katie Wilson Become Seattle's Next Mayor — Streetsblog USA "I really think that our public transit system is such a big part of people's daily experience of government," says the incoming mayor of the Emerald City.

Organizing transit riders is a winning strategy in Seattle (and beyond). #TRUCT usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/08/i...

I understand. Condolences.

Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.

We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

there is a place to hook it in the cushions by the seat belt anchor

Congrats! How many members of the Council in Trumbull?

Surely! I humbly rake them and store them to be the carbon source in the compost - and mulch them into the lawn and garden beds. What a valuable resource to so callously (and loudly) cast away.

Returning to Gateway Community College, the NCAT Annual Dinner is Connecticut's premiere active transportation networking event.
Registration: bit.ly/48l8ZVQ
Sign up to table, present or join the party. Registration required so we order the right amount of food and bring enough tables and chairs!

It’s not a good look. @ctmirror.org

Thanksgiving Holiday Service Update - Hartford Line The CTrail Hartford Line is a fast, frequent, and reliable passenger rail service that connects communities along the I-91 corridor.

Glad to see Connecticut stepping up to help Thanksgiving travelers by increasing service on the Hartford Line…especially considering how stressful and tenuous air travel has been.

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Duck, or you'll get whacked by the TransitDeathSpiral. Guess what: WE NEED ALL OF IT YESTERDAY. The bus should be FREE for those can't afford it and it should be made BETTER for everyone else. Stop telling us we have to pick and choose amongst the crumbs.

We should spend the crumbs thrown to bus service in America (compared with subsidizing single occupancy car travel) on shorter headways, expanded times for fixed route service and rapid transit routes, according to ALL the Ivy League transit experts out there.

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

If you are wealthy and never ride the bus, you know Free Bus Fares are Such a Waste of Money!
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