Recent comments in /f/Connecticut

mkt853 t1_jefy8js wrote

You may be shocked to hear this, but no one agrees 100% with everything a political leader does. With 332 million people in this country and a choice of two candidates to represent them, you can work out the probability that one of the two candidates will check off every box of all 332 million people. So what do you do? You vote for the guy that best represents you and your values. In our case, the choice is between Lamont or whoever the Jewish Space Laser party nominates.

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1234nameuser t1_jefy7kg wrote

RE infrastructure.......I come from TX where gentrification is dramatically densifying old urban cores that lack proper infrastructure.

However, that gentrification is also driving lower incomes to fill up the suburbs / exurbs that were never planned with proper pedestrian infrastructure to begin with.....no will it be affordable for decades to come.

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coconutpete52 t1_jefxeq2 wrote

I can’t get my mind off the fact that someone sat there and wrote and printed these while thinking “Yes. This will get everyone on board!”

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mkt853 t1_jefxc2z wrote

I've seen it. Ironically I've seen some drivers who do this use their blinkers to go in and out of the shoulder. I always wondered what would happen if someone jumped into the shoulder and then suddenly was face to face with a cop car parked there with a disabled vehicle or accident.

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[deleted] t1_jefxbdo wrote

I’m originally from IL and in Chicago and the suburbs red light cameras have been in place for a long time and it ABSOLUTELY changed behaviors. Anyone who drives in the New Haven area should welcome something like this given the blatant and rampant running of red lights that happens there. If this change is a pathway to this, then I am in favor.

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