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Car-Free Diaries
Gimme Style and Substance
 The Car-Free Diaries are the highlight reel of living and going places while gloriously car-free in Greater Hartford. These are on a slight time delay for my own safety and sanity.
Car-Free Diaries
Car-Free Diaries: ABC
Your weekly highlight reel of living and going places while gloriously car-free in Greater Hartford. These are on a slight time delay for my own safety and sanity.
Safe Streets Connecticut
Safe Streets Connecticut: April 2026
Last June, a motorist killed Stephen Mendelsohn at the intersection of Route 71 and 173 in West Hartford. Last month, 2.1 miles south, a motorist killed Matthew Croskey on Route 71 in New Britain. This is […]
Car-Free Diaries
Car-Free Diaries: Revival
“That’s impossible.” That’s what people both online and face-to-face have matter-of-factly said to me about living car-free in Connecticut . . . even after telling them this is precisely how I live. How could something I was […]
Another World Is Possible / Safe Streets Connecticut
Safe Streets Connecticut: March 2026
Drivers have killed nine pedestrians/cyclists, so far this year, in Connecticut. Here is information about the two known fatal pedestrian crashes from last month. 9 MARCH 2026 BRISTOL ROUTE 69 At 8:21 AM, the driver of […]
Access / Another World Is Possible / Car-Free Guides / Car-Free Travel / Central Connecticut / Hartford / Transportation
Riding Rapid Transit to Coffee Shops
How can you, in good faith, declare “but first, coffee” and then get behind the wheel before coffee? Instead, hop aboard the People’s Limousine! It’s possible. It’s easy. I could write about how this is doable […]
Activism / Another World Is Possible / Connecticut
Hartford Continues to Reject Kings
During extreme weather conditions — those days when we get heat warnings or severe wind chills or are cautioned about breathing the air — I walk less, relying more on the bus. In small doses, like […]
Safe Streets Connecticut
Safe Streets Connecticut: February 2026
Today I learned that Governor Lamont, who calls himself a Democrat, supports pandering to Tr*mp voters by subsidizing gasoline, which is closer to being right-priced currently because of Tr*mp’s war against Iran. Meanwhile, we have members […]