In November 2023, when a driver struck a pedestrian near Bishops Corner intersection, the West Hartford Police Department issued a press release that they ticketed the pedestrian for “reckless use of the highway.” While we don’t yet know details about this particular crash, the Bike West Hartford board wrote how we recognized a familiar pattern:
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Below is an edited letter to the Vision Zero Team from Tom Martin, a Bike West Hartford board member, highlighting some of his individual comments on how to improve the West Hartford Vision Zero Draft Action Plan. Hi Vision Zero Team, Thank you for the thoughtful presentation the other night, and for allowing the community
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West Hartford resident Jennifer Boyd is an Emmy-winning filmmaker and Director/Producer of The Street Project, an inspiring documentary about the global citizen-led fight to make our streets safer from traffic violence, which you can view on this PBS YouTube channel. She wrote her comments in response to the December 2023 draft of the West Hartford
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Philip Bolton shared copy of his feedback on one simple way to improve the West Hartford Vision Zero Draft Action Plan: Ban right turns on red lights. This policy has been recently adopted or is under consideration in several US cities, as described in the news link below. Folks, I strongly support the Vision Zero
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Thank you to the Town of West Hartford for extending the Trout Brook Trail north in 2023 to Asylum Avenue! The earliest section of this trail to the south was opened in 2008 — over 15 years ago! Let’s close the gap from Park Road to Jackson Avenue before this walk-bike trail is old enough
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The West Hartford Vision Zero Action Plan, which the Town plans to finalize in January 2024, aims for the goal of zero traffic deaths or severe injuries among all road users. We urge our members to attend this meeting and provide feedback because the final version of this Action Plan will guide the Town’s approach
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On the morning of November 29, 2023, a motor vehicle driver struck a pedestrian in the location of 333 North Main Street, near Bishops Corner intersection of West Hartford. Journalist Michael Walsh reported on social media that the pedestrian had non-life threatening injuries, and that the West Hartford Police Department did not plan to release
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Reporter Michael Walsh has written several important news stories on road safety, and also compiled this interactive map of West Hartford driver crashes with pedestrians and cyclists for 2023 to date. Click on red markers on the map to read about each crash, based on his reporting and police data submitted to the CT Crash
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We thank the Town of West Hartford Engineering Department for adding buffered bike lanes to a 0.4-mile portion of South Quaker Lane (between Flatbush and Talcott), as part of its regular milling and repaving scheduling, in compliance with the Town’s Complete Streets policy. We also thank the West Hartford Pedestrian-Bicycle Commission (PBC) for recommending improvements
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Rachel Martin, a West Hartford parent of young children, writes in her Nov 14th letter in We-Ha.com, “We Need to Make Our Roads Safe for Kids and Families.” …If we really want to make West Hartford a great place for families we need – desperately – to rethink the ways we design our roads and
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