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Absolutely, Pratt Street in Hartford started as pedestrian only during Covid and is now permanent. Incredible upgrade for the downtown.

Yep, that’s the one

I went to UConn for chemical engineering (high five! lol) but do more manufacturing engineering now for medical devices.

I’m getting unreasonably excited for the prospects of the Sun in Hartford. Preparing myself to be crushed but if it happens between UConn, Yard Goats, Wolf Pack, Athletic, and Sun there would literally be sports every week of the year in downtown Hartford (all easily accessible by transit).

This is ‘the one that got away’ of tech for me. Still makes me envious every time I see it.

Former massive CT landfill targeted to become source for revenue and energy. The idea is spreading A Connecticut-based solar company is planning a 14-acre solar farm the former landfill along the interstate, a deal that’s projected to yield a few million dollars over the next 20 years.

Mount Trashmore to become Mount More Solar!

Hartford getting clean power, reduced costs, and up to $4 million dollars over the next 20 years. Sounds like a homerun deal to me

www.courant.com/2025/08/05/f...

Congrats!!!

I’m in Stratford, you’d have my vote!

A screenshot of a tweet by @BPenfieldJ: Connecticut state flag with the grape vines replaced with pizza slices and a basketball. The state motto now reads "pizza and basketball"

forever this
(via @penfield.bsky.social elsewhere)

Finally something good happened

This is the same time I’m on

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Damn it, don’t give me hope…

This is legitimately devastating. Fuck Trump.

Pointing at abstract statistics and telling struggling people the economy was actually roaring didn’t work for Biden when the numbers were real, it’s going to be even harder for Trump when the numbers are fake

Nintendo’s Switch 2 doubles first-month sales of the original A sweet Switch success story.

Nintendo’s Switch 2 has doubled first-month sales of the original. Almost 6 million units have been sold so far — over a third of the Wii U’s total lifetime sales www.theverge.com/news/717163/...

Metropolitan Council of Governments Regional Plan of Conservation and Development Survey Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

Connecticut folks! If you live in MetroCOG (Trumbull, Easton, Fairfield, Bridgeport, Stratford, or Monroe) the org is doing its state-mandated 10 year regional PCOD.

I’m about as plugged in as you get and had no idea—here’s the survey if you have 15 minutes!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/8352878

Awesome, thanks for the heads up.

First time getting off in Moynihan, wow what an upgrade from Penn. Love the glass ceiling that is even open to the food hall below.

Proposed changes to MTA fares and tolls in 2025

🟩 Fare adjustments for most ticket types.

➕ More

Review the full list of proposed changes at the link below.
www.mta.info/fares-tolls/...

🟩 More flexible ticket options. We’re introducing a new day pass for unlimited trips and a “pay-as-you-go” mobile discount.

🟩 Reduced fare riders can ride all day at a discount—even in the morning peak.

The interior of a Metro-North train with seated passengers.

Heads up!

We’re proposing major changes to our ticket policy and fares for next year:

🟩 No more ticket activation. One-way tickets will now auto-activate upon purchase. Both paper and mobile tickets will expire after four hours.

EA CEO Teases College Basketball Return: 'We'd Have a Great Ability to Do College Basketball'

The CEO of Electronic Arts is teasing the return of EA College Basketball, just one month after a cryptic EA Sports tweet put the idea back into the heads of video game basketball fans.

Guess what other city just revised its zoning code and is seeing substantial housing investment for the first time in decades?

The Zoning Theory of Everything™️ remains undefeated. Specifically this is a story of Parking Reform working exactly how it is designed to, increasing land use flexibility

Graph of Hartford's permitting data showing a large increase starting in 2017 and then again in 2023

Data dump! 2024 Connecticut Housing Permit data just dropped!!

The pandemic slump is behind us and Hartford is off the the races, this is so great.

Can you spot the year Hartford reformed its zoning code?

There’s nothing better than going to a brewery w/out worrying about who’s driving after.

So in honor of summer beer season—and CT’s badass craft brew scene—here are my favorite MetroNorth-accessible breweries.

Rankings based on beer quality, 🚉🚂 access, and vibes.🧵/

This is some kickass reporting from @ctmirror.org

It makes me even more grateful to live in MDC territory. Having high quality publicly owned water and sewer means they have made proactive investments and today have 0 known or suspected lead service lines

Compare to investor owned Aquarion:

Map depicting the four town study and final preferred alignment through Bloomfield, Hartford and East Hartford

The @crcogcapitolregion.bsky.social East Coast Greenway Gap Study is here!!!!

I really like the final result which
1. Generally follows the Griffin Line - Nice and straight hitting a ton of residents