Tag: Hartford
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Bicycle Thoughts in Deep Winter – 2
One great resource for bicycle reading is Urban Velo magazine out of Pittsburgh. In the great tradition of mags like Tape-Op and Beer Advocate, it is a sharp focus mag with a strong identity and strong opinions. In this case Urban Velo has a fixed-gear focus with a strong undercurrent of Bike Friendly and Bike…
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Bicycle Thoughts in Deep Winter
The winter of 2012 was a wonderful aberration. In most of New England it was the “winter without a winter”. While some people remember the lack of skiing, skating, ice fishing, or snow plowing, my memories involve bicycles. Not the lack of bicycles, but the amazing gift of a winter bicycling season. Unseasonably warm temps…
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New Britain-Hartford Busway pt1
Dumb All Over The Connecticut DOT has been planning a busway from New Britain to Hartford, and is supposedly in the “home stretch”. In ConnDOT-terms that means that sometime in the next decade you might move from hearings to the bid process. Glacial Progress is the order of the day. It would seem that taking…