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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

now that the rain is done, raised intersections going in on whitney ave

paving crew and equipment putting down the first lift of asphalt at whitney and cold spring

Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

new accessible path under construction into college woods, replacing the old gravel path. part of a much larger project to totally redo the area around the ranger station with more walkways, seating, landscaping

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

new haven grand prix, apizza fest, and the gods blessing the state street cycletrack

authentic sally’s slice in the foreground, new haven grand prix course in the background on chapel st

sunset, double rainbow, explosion of color over state st while cycling home

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2 raised crosswalks and 1 raised intersection, all in a night’s work

paving crew rolling asphalt at state/audubon

paving crew and truck unloading asphalt at state/olive

completed asphalt raised crosswalk at state/olive

completed asphalt raised intersection with ped median at state/wall

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

state street paving looking great! spent the afternoon marking out limits of the raised crosswalks, set to go in next week.

state st in front of wtnh freshly paved with striping layout markings

state st and grand ave intersection with dashed white lines denoting raised crosswalk edges

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it begins! the final paving of state st

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i try to use facebook as little as possible, but on the few times i open it, the algorithm has already learned i like cycling and urbanism and will purposely show me posts from other states and people i dont know complaining about bike lanes. specifically to get me riled up

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

sorry APPLE 🍎 i will NOT buy the DUO 📵 because my POCKETS 👖 are not ✨BIG✨ enough

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

a lot of people against automated traffic cameras are also perfectly ok with enforcement by police officers. given that an officer can maybe stop 1 driver every 15 minutes while cams are continuous, truly seems like the secret motive is just to be able to break traffic laws with no consequences

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

>complaints that the road is full of potholes >complaints that repaving is too disruptive >complaints that drivers have to slow down behind bikes in the lane >complaints that a bike lane is being built once you realize that as a government official you will always be wrong, you will be set free

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

final paving of whitney ave today and tomorrow!

crew and equipment on whitney ave paving a final 2” overlay

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

in the song “problem” by ariana grande and iggy azalea, the line “one less problem” should technically be “one fewer problem”, in this bluesky essay i will explain in great detail the intricacies of proper grammar vs colloquial speech, (1/73)

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the continual speed & red light camera debate in CT is fascinating because it’s one of the very few issues in this era where individual politics seems to have zero correlation with someone’s opinion

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

more whitney ave progress photos i really like how this new seating area is coming out - when we were first planning this project, i saw parents biking their kids to school on the sidewalk and thought how nice would it be to provide a place to wait for pickup in the afternoon right on the path

asphalt cycletrack with circular concrete area and new benches outside of the school

whitney and cliff intersection with asphalt cycletrack paved and RRFBs

long stretch of new asphalt cycletrack and concrete buffer zone

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

whitney ave cycletrack paving today! from canner st to the hamden town line in this phase of work

paving crew and paving equipment creating a new 10’ asphalt 2 way cycletrack between a curb and existing tree belt

whitney and cold spring intersection with new concrete sidewalk and bollards on either side of a prepped and graded 10’ wide path base ready to be paved with asphalt

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

very unfortunate that flock cameras have become a huge issue at the same time that CT towns are rolling out automated traffic enforcement - the general public conflates the two. www.fox61.com/article/news...

fox61.com

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

now that we’re getting into apple season

homemade low quality meme: red “delicious” apple pictured with text “imagine the apple actually being delicious” and macintosh apple to the side with text “this post was made by macintosh gang”

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Whitney Ave gateway taking shape up at the town line with Hamden. Any would-be speeders entering the city will soon be greeted with a raised intersection, bumpouts, and a curbed median

construction crew at whitney & cliff building a granite curb median island between the two travel lanes. new concrete sidewalk and bollard in foreground, curb bumpout and new RRFB across street

google streetview capture of old layout of whitney ave at cliff st. two lanes in each direction with a paint only yellow median. very wide road with no physical cues that you are now entering a dense city led to excessive speeding from the hamden side (50-60mph)

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

milling has begun on whitney ave in hamden by CTDOT - 3 mile long, 4 to 3 lane road diet incoming very soon!

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

saw on linkedin a post celebrating a new 7 Brew about to open in waterbury. appears that the space for moving and storing cars is about 10x the area of the actual building. and to top it off, no way to actually walk up to the building. what a contribution to the city!

drone shot of a recently built 7 brew restaurant in waterbury, ct. photo shows a small white building surrounded by a u-shape of asphalt with 3 circulating lanes, 11 parking spaces, and fire lane. no sidewalk connection exists between the public road sidewalk and the building.

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

fyi, this type of fake “time math” is how highway designers justify widenings. a new lane will save 100,000 drivers 60 sec a day * average hourly wage, wow this new lane has incredible economic value, better build it! too bad that’s not how time works cumulatively

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

looks like a bike lane will in fact be finally going in on park st, taking the place of an entire general lane! elm st to chapel st, including the short block to broadway if this cross section extended to howard ave, and then mirrored on howe st, would make a sweet couplet b/t existing lanes

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

transportation peeps: how to stay motivated to keep putting forth the best design solutions, even when single individuals stonewall proven safety improvements because of their personal preferences?

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

if your city is only installing bike lanes where it doesn’t inconvenience drivers, it’s just performative. when admins say the needs of drivers and bicyclists have to be “balanced,” be wary. if your city is actually reallocating the overabundance of car space to other modes, that’s leadership.

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

what better way to spend time in the boston area between a flight and a train than on a streets tour with @sofio.bsky.social ! i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, this region is absolutely just printing bike lanes, both quick build and permanent, building out an impressive network

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

total eclipse from mallorca!

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i have always been a proponent of phasing out the gas tax in favor of highway tolls. it covers the switch from gas cars to EVs, captures out of state drivers damaging our roads, and reduces highway congestion by redistributing short one exit trips back onto surface streets

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Looking at New Haven crash stats for state owned (non highway) routes vs local roads, last 3 years: State: 4,101 crashes overall, 23 fatal (11 ped) Local: 14,247 crashes overall, 16 fatal (6 ped, 1 bike) Now do the math knowing state surface routes are only 9% of the total road miles in the city

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

using the next hour to mentally prepare myself for another disappointing episode of hotd. dont text

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

s. orange st, a 1 block gap in the protected bike lane network, is getting restriped in exactly the same layout, even with a plan on the shelf that could install bike lanes with no reduction in parking. incredibly frustrating to see easy wins like routine paving getting fumbled

freshly paved block of south orange st between columbus ave and west water st, with layout markings for paint. being retained is angled police parking, parallel parking, and two travel lanes, one of which is 20’ wide for no good reason. a previous concept plan would have put in striped buffered bike lanes simply by reducing the travel lanes to standard dimensions

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

new haven has a GIS bike map now! maps.newhavenct.gov/apps/65eae4c... old static map for reference: www.newhavenct.gov/home/showpub... notably, no more showing sharrows or suggested routes, only actual bike lanes and trails

maps.newhavenct.gov

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

the CT governor primary debate was pretty lackluster IMO. however it’s very clear the media is shilling for lamont

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

got yelled at today by a new haven cop while i was actively inspecting state st because i biked through an intersection on the exclusive walk signal. priorities i guess

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

has anyone actually heard a car alarm go off because someone was actively trying to break in? i’ve only ever heard alarms from people sitting on their keys or fireworks shows. might be one of the least useful and most annoying features

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the comments by business owners at this meeting are just horrendous. fyi, the bus lane planned for elm st is contraflow. if the city caves, the westbound “BRT” line would have to circle grand-state-chapel-york, likely adding 5-10 min per trip. www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/07/16/b...

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Biz Owners Blast Elm Street Bus Plan - New Haven Independent

Nearly 75 years after their grandfather secured a loading zone outside the family rug business, Ellen and Joshua Kebabian are fighting to preserve that loading zone as plans for a dedicated bus lane o...

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

sky looking like the breaking bad mexico filter rn

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ribbon cutting / presser for the farmington canal trail raised crosswalks! peep our new yield signs replacing the old stop signs, RRFBs, and bollard in the background

elected officials gathered around ctdot commissioner speaking at the canal trail intersection with shelton ave

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

sorry to the architects but the new yale science hill parking garage is way more ugly than just a standard garage IMO or even the old garage which was buried behind a vegetated slope. at least grow vines on the side or something, it’s just a solid wall of wood for an entire block

new yale science hill parking garage facing whitney ave covered in vertical wood slats uniformly

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

a neighbor put out a box of free morning glory seedlings on the sidewalk back in the spring, found a nice surprise this morning in my garden

deep blue and purple morning glory flower growing from a hanging basket with veggie garden in background

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

biked down to milford and back today and checked out the construction wrapping up at fowler field. they are relocating the road along the marina into the parking lots and unused grass to make the marina side pedestrian only. really cool!

new roadway through former grass between the tennis courts and baseball fields, new crosswalks and ADA parking spaces in foreground

extremely high quality markup of google maps aerial with red lines showing location of new road through the field and x’s on the old shipyard lane being turned into a walkway

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

farmington canal trail @ shelton/starr raised intersection is now fully paved. traffic speeds are already so much safer here. whole project set to wrap up next week

looking south along shelton ave at starr st and canal trail, new asphalt raised intersection with temporary bump marking, RRFBs, and ped medians

standing on shelton ave and starr st SE corner, new flush crossing of the canal trail across raised asphalt intersection, bollard on corner of intersection to prevent cars driving on sidewalk, ped median in background for crossing one lane at a time

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

intersection of whalley and blake, which used to be a skewed and massive expanse of roadway, teed up to 90 as part of our routine isolated sidewalk repair program. blake st is getting paved this summer so this will also reduce the amount of asphalt needed.

standing on whalley ave looking down blake st, new big topsoil area visible behind a new curbline and concrete sidewalk where asphalt road used to be

new sidewalk ramps and new roadway curb across blake st, reducing overall crossing distance from 85’ to 30’

google streetview of old intersection showing skewed angle, large amount of excess asphalt, and long unmarked crosswalk

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

progress on whitney ave: i dont think i’ve posted many updates at all, but we’re about halfway through phase 1 (canner st to cliff st). road diet lane config is implemented in the north, along with curb & bumpouts, future cycletrack base, future raised crosswalk corners, and some new signal arms

whitney at huntington looking south, curb bumpouts with new concrete sidewalk and temp ramps before final raised intersection paving, 10’ wide section of base material for future two way cycletrack, bollards on corners, and vertical signal mast installed

whitney at huntington looking north along center of road, recently restriped roadway with one lane each direction and alternating left turn lane in the middle. road will be repaved at the end but this is essentially the final config. parking lane on the east side in the background after bumpout ends (extra long bumpout for in lane bus stop waiting area)

whitney at cliff looking west, future raised intersection, new concrete sidewalk pads in abutting base material for two way cycletrack, one lane of traffic each direction currently for construction work zone purposes

new traffic signal mast arms installed today at whitney and east rock, awaiting signal heads and wiring, old signal on span wire still operating

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

new traffic signals going up on whitney ave. existing signal is an unknown age (likely 1960s) so this will be a huge improvement in conjunction with the rest of the road diet project

electrical contractor lifting steel mast arm onto new vertical shaft at whitney ave and east rock rd

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

an idea for a new tv show called “The Pit” that documents a college marching band front ensemble hour by hour on a performance day. there would be slightly fewer medical emergencies

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’m surprised it took this many years to get the comment, but it’s finally been said. It’s over folks. Pedestrianizing a half block of low-traffic street for the summer only in the densest part of downtown lined with businesses is a war on cars.

screenshot of New Haven Independent article “Pedestrian Plaza Preserved” with a photo of tables, chairs, and planters set up on Orange St between Center and Crown

screenshot of known troll and anon commenter Notes on the Independent, “Elicker’s war on cars continues.”

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

ultimate friday evening panic mode: mayor sending out a reverse 911 text that my construction project is complete when it is most certainly not

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

asphalt paving is in full swing for the farmington canal trail raised crossings. crews are currently in hamden working south into new haven, and one crossing here has been opened. after paving, just needs line striping and signs

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

busy day of multiple construction activities happening at the intersection of state st & water st. here is a new drilled shaft foundation being poured for a future traffic signal. goes about 15’ deep

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Adam Weber @awebr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

at the meeting in hamden tonight for the proposed road diet on whitney ave. CTDOT giving a very informational presentation regarding the issues with 4 lane roads and the safety benefits from a road diet. appears to be many supporters in the audience wearing green

hamden government center conference room, CTDOT speaker in front of tv screens presenting to audience

printed out plans showing existing vs proposed whitney ave road diet and a fact sheet on road diets

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