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Tom Broderick

@trumbullbrod.bsky.social

Educator. Trumbull Town Council D5. CT Parking Reform Co-founder. UConn alum. Personal account. Pro: homes, safe streets, utility regulation, hiking, local beer Anti: parking mandates, snob zoning, authoritarians. CT’s a beautiful place: let’s share it.

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Gov. Lamont will be coming to Norwalk to ceremonial sign the housing bill the legislature passed in special session.

Housing is at the top of the affordability pyramid. Fix it or we lose our college graduates, families who are looking to buy their starter home or seniors who want to downsize.

08.12.2025 03:28 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Would love to see the Connecticut Post address its 17 “CT home prices set to jump if Mamdani elected, says anonymous chud” stories

Shocking to believe those obviously unsourced fake stories were fake!

08.12.2025 01:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If condos don’t belong here they don’t belong anywhere

link.ctpost.com/click/429163...

07.12.2025 23:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Haha totally get it! (Didn’t see the first one!)

07.12.2025 21:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The only civilized way to get to a boys trip in the city

07.12.2025 20:02 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I usually feel that NIMBYs are dart throwing for anything, but this argument appears to be coming from the MAGA-lunatic fringe.

I think it has the advantages of sounding official (it’s in the constitution!) and tea-party like while also having a clear segregationist feel to it…

07.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tenth article to the CT constitution of 1965 literally states that “The general assembly shall by general law delegate such legislative authority as from time to time it deems appropriate to towns, cities and boroughs.”

The CGA is the fount of authority, not some mystical home rule

07.12.2025 19:11 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reading the section about how auto centric design ruins society, as a suburban politician I *entirely* agree

Cars: bad for nature, bad for community, and terrible for civics!

07.12.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The best way to finish @thewaroncars.bsky.social “Life After Cars” is on the train to and from NYC

07.12.2025 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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😍 Sunnyside 😍

07.12.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love to see the ped/bike infrastructure in Sunnyside, Queens slowly shifting from plastic to permanent/hard

Concrete > flexposts any day of the week!

07.12.2025 18:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ignore the ignorant, you’re cooking with historical gas baby

07.12.2025 16:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great minds think alike!

06.12.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Find yourself a best friend and wife who says “yes” when you ask if she wants to attend a morning historical walk in the snow

06.12.2025 18:39 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Only the true patriots out for the Putnam Memorial State Park Winter Walk this morning.

Fantastic stories about recently uncovered stories, including an Acadian camp follower, enslaved doctor, and native soldier.

America—it was diverse from the very beginning!

06.12.2025 18:35 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Totally agree on both counts

06.12.2025 14:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ahhhh I gotcha! Hmm ok I can see that from a drivers perspective…

06.12.2025 13:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hmm I can see that for a 4 lane stroad, thinking you can use the left lane? (I’m biased as almost all buses I encounter are on one lane roads).

06.12.2025 13:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Lmao yes kind of a key part! Also I think it’s telling that in their petition needs to have a fake image 😂

(Also to be way too technical, if we spent the hundreds of millions to make remediate that area and we plopped down some single family homes I’d lose my mind—even their fake image is dumb!)

06.12.2025 13:48 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The end stage of deranged car brain, insane dangerous lawlessness with no accountability

06.12.2025 13:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“Save the smokestack” lmao look at that fake petition rendering of what the area actually looks like

NIMBYism for polluting infrastructure Fairfield County is incredible

06.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 160    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 5

American culture: we have to be “tough on crime,” unless it’s a driver—they should be able to do anything they want at any time they want with no repercussions, even if car deaths and injuries are the most dangerous part of our society!

06.12.2025 13:26 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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There is NOT A SINGLE DRIVER who’s “confused” by what the flashing school bus stop sign means—they’re just recklessly passing them!

Fine the hell out of them for the first offense, take their license the second offense.

Stop messing around and give consequences!
www.ctpost.com/news/article...

06.12.2025 13:26 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
A collage of photos from PRN events throughout the year

A collage of photos from PRN events throughout the year

Connecticut passed the strongest statewide legislative parking reforms in the country! Our maps & advocacy helped pass this historic reform.

Support more wins in 2026 by donating to our end of year campaign!

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05.12.2025 22:30 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Is it possible that the only people who haven’t read the Power Broker are highway and traffic engineers lol

06.12.2025 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My guess—very much a guess—is that maybe in some edge cases but not likely? Because they’re far enough away from one another in most spots you usually want a destination near one of them

06.12.2025 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hell yes

06.12.2025 00:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s an insane plan….likely billions to accomplish nothing! And actually worse—to make things worse!

05.12.2025 23:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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05.12.2025 23:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On the one hand expanding I-95 would harm the climate, increase air pollution, cost billions of dollars, *and* take away tax revenue by continuing to destroy one of our most valuable urban centers in the state, but on the other hand it won’t work relieve congestion, so…

05.12.2025 23:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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