Reguarding new haven streetcar map, I like it. One would have to really look and research how long a one way loop would take, as much as Iam for a two way loop, the distance between stations and terminouses, maybe short of enough time from start to finnish. Also living the new haven area for 25 years, the current route around yale and downtown, is clearly the safest route for users. Outside of this area in new haven it gets very bad, and has been known for killings, drugs gangs, worse than many cites of this size. so going else wear for the route, may be too dangerous to go to.
I hope new haven dose something like this for the development of the city.

I’m glad the streetcars are returining to the cities and towns.

I think a much more urgent issue for the city is making the train station feel more welcoming and less embedded in blight. The area around the station is one of the most blighted and unwelcoming in all of Southwestern Connecticut. Hardly an appropriate gateway to a city that badly needs investment and economic activity, and should exploit its rail connections to these ends. Improved pedestrian and bicycle access to the station from Downtown and the medical campus should be a high priority for the city.

But Union Avenue needs major cosmetic improvements as well. The city should team up with the state to create a huge tax incentive for redevelopment of the concrete bunker housing that beleaguers the eyes of travelers as they emerge from Union Station. In either direction from the station, Union Avenue is barren and uninviting by day, downright intimidating by night. It’s really an appalling state of affairs for a beautiful rail station that could be one of the economic jewels of the entire state, much like Grand Central in NY and Union Station in D.C.

CT Transit bus service to Union Station should also be expanded and better integrated with arriving Metro North trains. Is the cab drivers’ union lobbying against this or something?

if it does get built, it’d be nice if they timed them to coincide with the arrival of trains/buses (greyhound drops off at union station too)

Now only if they’d do this for YNH’s other campuses in Bridgeport and Greenwich….

new haven managed to adopt every bad planning and architecture fad in the 1950s and 1960s. when you consider the size of NH, they probably undertook the largest urban renewal program in the country plus highways to nowhere, bad modern architecture, wide auto-centric streets, low income housing towers in the park, parking lots all over downtown, blank walls on the street, letting the 1950s equivalent of starchitects design the city, inward focused downtown mall, massive multi-block parking garages built over multiple streets. they practically managed to eradicate almost every historic neighborhood and building in the city outside of the yale campus. luckily now it seems they’ve realized their mid-century utopia has turned into a nightmare and are spending millions to correct past decisions.