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Students and faculty can not bike from central campus to West Campus. This is a serious oversight on the part of Yale, and one that potentially impacts the entire regional economy by forcing more people to drive. A route should have been created prior to the opening of the new campus as a research facility.
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Anonymous (Gast)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registrierter Benutzer)
Anonymous commenter -- Can you post your suggested route?
A number of people around the city, and from Yale, are working on this issue, and would love to hear your suggestions.
Also, I disagree that mass land purchases are necessary to make a usable bike facility for users of all ages and abilities. It's typically much easier than that and is just a matter of rethinking a few policies and priorities.
makemedrive (Gast)
Mark (Gast)
I agree, Makemedrive. It's too bad that this didn't become an immediate policy direction as soon as the "prison camp" West Campus site was purchased by Yale.
I'd strongly recommend forwarding it to your colleagues at Yale so that they can weigh in. There's one thing we can be sure about: if enough people vote on this issue, action will be taken more quickly.
See http://www.yale.edu/westcampus/ for more about the site.
Given the obvious potential benefits with nearly 2,000 daily bicycle commuters in the region (according to the Census ACS), perhaps West Haven's economic development department would be interested in pushing our regional leadership about this issue?
Anonymous (Gast)
Eric Triffin emailed in to say:
What keeps them from biking? The roads are there, bike lanes would be best but that doesn't stop me from biking! I do believe that connecting the Farmington Canal Trail to Long Wharf and eventually around to West Haven is in the longer range planning and will be a wonderful asset for all when we do get that far. I agree that for all of your reasons and for the exercise, reduced pollution and aesthetic advantages I would support this all the way from my public health standpoint.
Yours in health,
Eric Triffin, MPH
Brian Tang (Registrierter Benutzer)
Anonymous (Gast)
Anonymous (Gast)
Eric Triffin emailed in to say:
Well thought and well construed...I would direct your comments to Eileen Buckheit who is in charge of Planning and Development 937-3583 and Ron Quagliani the Chief of Police as being the top players in this. You can count on my support (for what it's worth) from the Public Health side of the picture. Thanks for helping spearhead this issuer forward for the good of all concerned (and every reduced car use helps prevent asthma too!)
In health,
Eric Triffin, MPH
Brian Tang (Gast)
Anonymous (Gast)
kate938 (Gast)
Anonymous (Gast)
kate938 (Gast)
Anonymous (Gast)
kate938 (Gast)
Here's the article that was published in mid-December in the New Haven Register:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/12/16/news/metro/b1-retransportation.txt
Anonymous (Gast)
chris (Gast)
Let's all try to meet somehow online or in person and make this route between our cities safer for all the obvious reasons. A route over Kimberly Ave Bridge (via the grasses area that I posted last fall http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/9034) down along the shore and then up Lake St. to Morgan up to the Yale Campus and then another loop down Frontage through the center of West Haven would give great options for a more direct route to the campus and a more scenic route home along the shore.
If we pool our efforts and work together maybe it can get done much quicker. West Haven has no sharrows, no signage for cyclist at all. People associate bicycle riding in West haven with the boardwalk. As we all know that is not where bicycles should be.
chris
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Eric Triffin, MPH (Gast)
I always say that we should be compensated as a city for keeping the beaches non-commercial yet public, no other town in the Northeast has done anything close to 4 miles of public beach!
I also wish we could put a waterpark near Chick's with slides and swimming pools and even a wave machine so we could make headlines: "West Haven Makes Waves on Long Island Sound!" The city residents could use it for free and then others would pay, giving the city and its taxpayers some real financial relief. And the State should pay for the project as an offset for us keeping so much prime (taxable) property open space and for providing a great opportunity for exercise as well as peaceful respite.
I hope these projects get more airplay, go viral and become real, why not?!
Brian Tang (Registrierter Benutzer)
Check out what I just had forwarded to me:
“The City of New Haven invites you to participate in an important meeting relating to the development of a Concept Master Plan for Long Wharf Park. This planning effort, and construction of the resulting recommended improvements is funded by ConnDOT as part of the mitigation plan for the I-95 corridor improvement project.
As you know, Long Wharf Park serves many functions: it is a critical link in New Haven’s waterfront trail system, a marine and environmental education resource, a veterans memorial site, a local park for the Hill and City Point neighborhoods, and an important environmental coastal resource. We hope that you can join us in a discussion of the park’s issues and opportunities as we embark on the development of a long-range vision and for this important New Haven asset.
Our presentation and workshop will be held Thursday, June 17, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM in Meeting Room #2, 2nd floor of City Hall, 165 Church Street. A light dinner will be provided.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts about the future of the Park. Please contact Donna Hall at dhall@newhavenct.net or 203-946-7842 to let us know if you plan to attend.”
Eleanore Turkington (Gast)
Eleanore Turkington
Gripe Vine
West Haven Voice
Carly Bogen (Gast)
Hi,
Does anyone know if there has been any progress on this issue in the two years since the last comment? My job is moving to West Campus this summer and I am really eager to bike to work in a safe manner. Does anybody have a suggested route they use?
Thanks!