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Making Progress with West Hartford Vision Zero: Comments on Revised Draft due Jan 26

We send a big THANK YOU to Mayor Shari Cantor and the West Hartford Town Council, Rick Ledwith, Duane Martin, the entire Vision Zero Task Force for listening to community feedback! The Jan 17th meeting of the Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) committee showed very good progress. Watch the video and read news coverage by Michael Walsh

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Three Questions Town Council Should Ask about Vision Zero Action Plan

Below is a public letter sent to West Hartford Town Council members from the Bike West Hartford board on January 12th 2024. For context about our concerns with the Vision Zero Action Plan, read our Jan 7th post “Demand 30 Day Public Review to Strengthen Vision Zero Action Plan” and Jan 10th news coverage “Frustration

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Demand 30-Day Public Review to Strengthen Vision Zero Action Plan

Update: News coverage of the last scheduled Vision Zero Task Force meeting on Monday Jan 8th 2024: “Frustration about inaction mounts” with Town of West Hartford, Jan 10th CT Insider news story by Michael Walsh (gift link) Tragedy struck again on Saturday night in West Hartford, as another pedestrian was killed by a driver, this

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Bishops Corner: Blame Bad Road Design, Not the Victim

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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To WH Leaders: Stop Delaying on Boulevard and Support Vision Zero

West Hartford town leaders disappointed us again by failing to take action to improve safe bicycle infrastructure via painted bike lanes on Boulevard. The town received positive feedback from their own appointed Pedestrian and Bicycle Commission (the PBC) and the Town Engineer, and promised to make a decision based on that feedback at the June

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