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The pedestrian safety bill does little without a road design rethink Wikimedia Commons The recent pedestrian safety bill, HB 5429, is an important — if small — first step toward making Connecticut safer for walking and biking. But unless the bill is paired with changes to our road design and zoning, our streets will continue to be dangerous places for pedestrians and cyclists. The bill’s two key provisions allow localities greater flexibility in setting speed limits and remove a requirement for pedestrians to be in the road to legally signal their intent to cross the street. Lowering ca...

Mark Loehrke Times correspondent Cited for resilience, innovation and community service, Lockport wins the 2021 Strongest Towns competition. Mayor Steven Streit discusses the honor. Tony V. Martin, The Times It started with a book club. Having reviewed with the city council and his staff the Strong Towns philosophy — which is based on an international movement dedicated to making communities across the U.S. and Canada financially strong and resilient by focusing on practical incremental projects, adaptability and community involvement — Lockport Mayor Steven ...

According to a competition hosted by Strong Towns, the 2021 Strongest Town is Lockport, Illinois. Credit: City of Oxford, MS Author: Istvan Bardos Updated: 4:34 PM CDT April 9, 2021 OXFORD, Mississippi — You may have heard the expression “strong as an ox.” Maybe a new expression could be “strong as an Oxford.” Friday, Oxford, Mississippi, was named the second-strongest town in the 2021 Strongest Town contest hosted by Strong Towns, which is “an international movement dedicated to making communities across the United States and Canada financially str...

Rebuttal: Zoning reform is long overdue In a March 24 opinion piece titled A plea for a hold on zoning reform, author Alexis Harrison of Fairfield attacked H.B. 6107 and (without naming it) S.B. 1024. As a fellow Fairfield County resident (from the neighboring town of Trumbull) who thinks zoning reform is one key to building a more prosperous and inclusive Connecticut, I’d like to counter its claims and make an argument of my own. Thomas Broderick Her March 24  piece involved a series of somewhat meandering claims, but the core assertions were that: H.B. 6107, an affordable housing bill, w...

Over the last decade, 13 of the 15 fastest growing large cities in the US have been in the Sun Belt. None were in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic or Midwest. Indeed, Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban…