Transform CT: Crowd-sourcing our future
Who is designing our state’s transportation future? Urban planners? Academic visionaries? Highly trained engineering and planning professionals at the Connecticut Department of Transportation? No,...
View ArticleFoley and Malloy: On transportation
Regular readers of this column know that I’ve never been shy about criticizing Governor Malloy for his transportation policies. But after hearing him and his Republican opponent, Tom Foley, discuss...
View ArticleFive terrible ideas for solving traffic congestion
The fall campaign has brought a welcome discussion of the state’s transportation woes, especially getting mass transit back into a state of good repair. But gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley says he...
View ArticleFree parking isn’t really free
America’s obsession with automobiles is not only creating gridlock and ruining the quality of our air, but it’s eating up our land and sending real estate costs upward. Because, once we drive our cars...
View ArticleMalloy’s transit land grab
Don’t look now, but Governor Malloy’s trying to take your land, or at least control of the land around your local train or bus station. When the CDOT recently tried to shove a private development down...
View ArticleTalking Transportation: Rethinking first class
Any regular reader of this column knows that I hate flying. I love travel, but getting there by air is a pain … and getting worse. Our local airports are vying for third-world status. The security...
View ArticleCameron brings Talking Transportation to HAN Radio
Jim Cameron. Jim Cameron, the biggest voice for Connecticut commuters, joins HAN Radio and the Hersam Acorn Network this week. Cameron, who has been writing his Talking Transportation column for...
View ArticleTalking Transportation: Summer getaways without the traffic
Watching the Friday afternoon traffic crawling up I-95, I was struck with a thought: There has got to be a better way to get to the Cape and Islands than playing Mad Max on the bumper-to-bumper...
View ArticleTalking Transportation: The end did not justify the means
As someone who has battled two decades for more spending on transportation, you’d think I would be happy with the state’s new biennial budget. But when you drill down into the details, there’s reason...
View ArticleTalking Transportation: PT Barnum & Metro-North
Jim Cameron. What do Connecticut’s own PT Barnum and I have in common? No, not just a love of circuses. We are both “rail advocates” fighting for the interests of commuters. This amazing piece of...
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