Anthony Cherolis
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ANALYSIS | The Dos and Don'ts of Speed Cameras
New Orleans is an example of how to implement speed and traffic light cameras in a way that both loses public support and does less to improve public safety. While Connecticut legislators and other states are considering camera-based traffic enforcement programs, it behooves them to study what works – and to understand what does not. → Read More
OP-ED | EV Micromobility, Not Just E-Bikes
The climate change crisis is such that we do not have time to delay electrification and implement lower-emission transportation solutions. Big EVs with big batteries exacerbate the material supply shortage issue. A one-to-one, full-sized gasoline-to-battery electric fleet transition is not a viable path forward. Think smaller. → Read More
Opening Eyes and Minds with CTNewsJunkie
We cannot take our local and state news sources for granted. In this age of vulture capital firms buying up and eviscerating print newspapers, the remaining news purveyors, journalists, and editorial content providers need to be held even more dearly. Funding structures reliant on advertising leave gaps in the budget of even the leanest of news organizations. → Read More
OP-ED | Bipartisan Transportation Choice
Freedom. Choice. Public safety. Balanced budgets. These are widely shared American ideals. Towns, cities, states, and our federal government impact those ideals when making systemic infrastructure choices around transportation and setting funding, policy, and design standards. With the noise of the mid-term elections behind us, we can look forward to, maybe, getting stuff done at different… → Read More
OP-ED | Managed or Disastrous Retreat; It's Time to Decide
Several years ago I attended an affordable housing conference in Cromwell, Connecticut – a town with scant affordable housing – at a sprawl-burg hotel intended only for car-driving access. → Read More
OP-ED | Where Are The Indigenous History Markers And Statues?
Throughout my bicycle travels of the Northeast and Midwest I have stopped to read many historical markers. I like to see what happened there, learn the history of buildings, and better understand the arc of human civilization and society in each place along the way. From a train crash to early resident life to highlights of historical industries, the signs give me a slice of life and a sense of… → Read More
OP-ED | Invest In The Future, Not A Dirty Deal
There has been a lot in the news lately about the “Dirty Deal” struck in Congress by legislators working to get the Inflation Reduction Act passed. The follow on bill was negotiated by Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, who had been blocking the passage of the larger bill. The bill would fast-track several fossil-fuel projects including the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West… → Read More
OP-ED | Open Streets, Ciclovias, and Bike Parties
I recently explored Indianapolis, Indiana for two weeks, mostly on a bicycle or walking. It is a huge city at 368 square miles compared to Hartford’s 17. Unlike Hartford, the city expanded and annexed until absorbing the entirety of Marion County. The city’s governance is a joint City-County council. → Read More
OP-ED | Rail With Trail In Connecticut, Long Overdue
One unassuming paragraph in Connecticut's 2022 legislation will have a big impact on the state’s bike routes and multiuse trails. In the short 2022 legislative session, House Bill 5255, proposed by Connecticut’s Department of Transportation (CT DOT), was passed and signed into law. Four lines of text give the state more options to close gaps in urban and regional multiuse trails. The “Rail with… → Read More
OP-ED | Does Your Neighborhood Need Some Nice Little Things Done? 'JFDI'
When your state or local government is not getting it done, there are some things we can just do ourselves, or with friends and neighbors, to make a difference. These projects are called tactical urbanism or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) fixes – also known as "just effing do it" or #JFDI. Beyond cities and urban areas, the DIY concept applies in suburban towns and rural areas, too. You should know that… → Read More
OP-ED | A Change In Viewpoint
On my pedal-powered bicycle travels I have seen how other cities and towns create opportunities from things Hartford and our state departments too often treat like liabilities. For instance, I have biked past and through several capped landfills converted to passive-use parks. The North Hartford capped landfill, managed by CT DEEP, is surrounded by a tall fence and no trespassing signs.… → Read More
OP-ED | Now That's a Town Center
Cycling through Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I had to stop, observe, and take some photos. I was just at the beginning of my bicycle touring sabbatical (Day 1), and I had not expected to be wowed by a thoughtful, safe, positively busy, and human-scale state street design. While stopped, I observed three Massachusetts pedestrians crossing individually at the clearly marked crosswalk with cars… → Read More
OP-ED | We Can Do Better Than This, Together
Climate change, falling life expectancy, rising wealth inequality, the opiate epidemic, and year after year of climbing healthcare costs. These are just a handful of the challenging national issues in the United States. We talk about them, and we talk around them. We argue about fault and point fingers, but are we solving any of them? → Read More
ANALYSIS | What Can We Learn From an Interactive Crash Map?
Although there was much less driving in Connecticut in the first half of 2020, there was an unexpected 13% increase in statewide crash fatalities over the same period in 2019.... → Read More
OP-ED | This Article is for Danny, Rest in Peace
Two blocks from my home in Hartford on Friday, April 13, a bicycle rider, either on the sidewalk or in the bicycle lane, was struck, mangled, and killed by... → Read More