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Conn. commuters cope with tough week after train crash
Commuters on Monday grappled with the inconvenience of their morning ritual after a deadly train collision in Connecticut last week, but the traffic nightmare that some had predicted did not materialize. Special shuttle buses and telecommuting took some...
Tags: Grand Central Terminal, Highway Transportation, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Stamford, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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NTSB: Trains were moving 70 mph before Connecticut collision
About 30,000 commuters in Connecticut and New York braced for a sluggish trek to work on Monday -- and for the rest of the week -- as officials continued to investigate why two trains slammed into each other in Bridgeport, Conn., on Friday evening. An...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board, Transportation Accidents, Railway Accidents
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READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut Water To Replace Water Main On Boston Post Road And Essex Road In Westbrook
WestbrookThe Connecticut Water Company (Connecticut Water) announced May 16, that work has begun on a water main replacement project on the Boston Post Road and Essex Road in Westbrook. Around May 20, Connecticut Water will begin replacing about 2,400 feet of...Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Transportation, Old Saybrook, Road Transportation
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Conn. gov. warns commuters of traffic mess that could last a week following train derailment
Associated PressHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned Sunday....Tags: Renovation, Hospitals and Clinics, Grand Central Terminal, Mount Vernon, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Damaged trains being removed from wreck site
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North said. Aaron Donovan, spokesman for the Metropolitan...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Grand Central Terminal, Mount Vernon, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Connecticut Lawmakers Consider Changes to Digital Billboards
Our public bureaucrats don’t normally pay much attention to matters involving seconds. (At least, not when you’re standing in line at the DMV or waiting for your income tax refund check to arrive.) There is one area, however, where state...
Tags: FBI, Science and Technology, Electronics, Judges, Laws
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The DOT Clears Timber Along the Merritt Parkway, But Some Worry About the Aesthetic Effect
As the worst storm in recent Connecticut history started to tear through the northeast in late October, the inevitable happened: authorities closed the Merritt Parkway. Like the two major weather events before Hurricane Sandy — the tropical...
Tags: Tropical Weather, Highway Transportation, Greenwich, Westport, Human Interest
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Connecticut Businesses Find That Adopting a Highway is Good Advertising
Businesses are, in the lexicon of the Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz, "morally, ethically... positively, absolutely... undeniably and reliably" banned from putting advertising directly on major highways in Connecticut. Unless, of course, they spend a...
Tags: Business, Ku Klux Klan, Highway Transportation, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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Transportation Officials Consider Retiring Bar Cars on the New Haven Line
The New Haven Line is the last commuter railroad in the country to operate bar cars, and the days of these rolling dinosaurs appear to be numbered. Or maybe not. Depending on who they're talking to, Connecticut transportation officials either...
Tags: Mini, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Union Says Anthem's Parent, WellPoint, Is 'Hurting American Families' With Political Contributions
The Hartford CourantA union that represents state and municipal workers wants its health insurer's parent company, WellPoint Inc., to stop giving money to political organizations that the union says is "hurting American families." At issue is Indianapolis-based WellPoint'...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Hartford tarmac stranding doesn't justify new law
The Halloween weekend stranding of more than 1,000 airline passengers at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Conn., brought the tarmac delay activists out in full force again, pushing for new laws that they claim would prevent lengthy ground...Tags: Transportation Industry, JetBlue Airways, Demonstration, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry
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Cleared: Tractor Trailer Accident On I-84 East In Danbury
The Hartford CourantThe Connecticut Department of Transportation is reporting a tractor trailer accident on I-84 Eastbound between Exits 2 and 3 is now clear. All lanes are open.Tags: Danbury
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