Category: Meet Your Infrastructure
18
Jan
About People
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It doesn't matter if the system does not resonate with the haters who will never use it anyway.
05
Sep
Design Downtown Environmental Interest Hartford History Long Reads Meet Your Infrastructure North Meadows Parks Rivers
Footbridge
by Kerri Ana Provost
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FUN FACTS ABOUT THIS OVERBUILT MONSTROSITY AND ITS ENVIRONS The plan in 1977 was to tear down a pedestrian bridge so that I-91 could be...
25
Jan
Access Activism Commentary Design Environmental Interest Faith Hartford History Local News Long Reads Meet Your Infrastructure Parks Reader Tip Regionalism Transportation Volunteer
Take A Seat!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Elitist attitudes over who may use public space were not born yesterday. And it does not get much more stuck up than deciding who deserves...
16
Aug
Access Activism Barry Square Design Downtown Hartford Local News Long Reads Meet Your Infrastructure Progress Reader Tip South Green Transportation Unsolicited Advice Weird
Car-Free Diaries: Week 37
by Kerri Ana Provost
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All I want are simple things. . .
13
Aug
Cultural Interest Frog Hollow Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Meet Your Infrastructure Transportation
Street Murals in Frog Hollow
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Although the Courant erroneously referred to Babcock Street and Capitol Avenue, and Flower Street and Capitol Avenue, as “two major intersections,” this does not detract from...
07
Jul
Access Construction Design Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Local News Long Reads Meet Your Infrastructure Parks Summer Transportation
Natural Traffic Calming
by Kerri Ana Provost
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About two dozen, much needed new trees have been planted in the Park Terrace/Russ Street roundabout, and they’re not super scrawny ones either. These could...
16
May
The Prettiest Little Intersection in Hartford
by Kerri Ana Provost
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As seen in Cedar Hill Cemetery
07
Aug
What’s this? What’s this?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s a sharrow. A sharrow is: (a) a shared lane marking (b) a portmanteau of “shared” and “arrow” (c) a portmanteau of “shitty” and “arrow”...
13
May
Centerline Yield Signs
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What does it mean to yield? Hint: many of us have been doing it during lockdown.
20
Jan
Access Commentary Construction Design Downtown Get Outside Hartford Local News Meet Your Infrastructure Municipal Progress Quality of Life Reader Tip Transportation
What’s This?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Before I explain what this sexy beast and constant sentry of a traffic control device is all about, I’ve got to holler about something for...