This was just closed but a very recent examination of the situation shows that the situation in same as ever. Narrow-tube garbage bins set inside much larger rubbish fixtures at waver entry to Wooster Square clogg immediately when the smallest pizza box gets set on top the narrow inserts and soon all trash spill onto the ground.

But it's looking good. The new concrete bridge is in. Sidewalks are mostly in, curbs and manholes are in. One layer of asphalt appears done and based on height of remaining manhole would think that one more run with the asphalting is in order.
Then I suppose railings and all that stuff -- but, still, soon if you want to hit Route 5 and head north, you don't have to get on 91.

For the third time in two weeks I've picked up between 30-75 loose cards exactly like the one in the photo -- these had been set on stone walls to encourage membership, I assume, but of course they blew all over the place.
LA Fitness, get your fit together and stop this mess.

Every day we ride up to the top of East Rock and bring with us a plastic grocery bag.
Either on our way up or on our way down we stop to pick up the bottles, cans, cigar packaging, cigarette packs, candy wrappers, fast food wrappers and bags, tiny ziplock bags we imagine held narcotics, foil, spent disposable diapers, empty chip bags, paper cups, plastic cups, straws, those round dome lids for cups, plus miscellaneous other bits of trash too numerous to itemize.
Every day we pick it up, and drop it all into one of the numerous blue or white capacious garbage bins.
The photo shown here was the the litter that accumulated over the past 24 hours. Tomorrow we'll have a plastic bag of litter this full or even fuller.
So what's the point of pestering you with all this information, this litter update?
Hopefully, if you're one of the people who carelessly allows bits of litter to get away from you as you walk or drive through the park -- you'll now try to be more careful.
But if you're one of the people who doesn't care, who throws trash on the ground wherever you are or wherever you drive, you're not reading this anyway.

State a Street bridge/street across the Mill River is actually going to happen. Bridge structure minus road, approach, railings and light is in. Road surface grated. With this much accomplished, based on lifetime to date progress vis a vis deadlines, should be complete by 2020.

Somebody removed the NO STANDING sign from this location, which might explain why a car is nearly always parked there, nevertheless in violation of the law.
Police, please come ticket the vehicle that has been parking there illegally every day this week.

Dear Mayor Harp and Chief Esserman,
My family and I live in New Haven. Every day and, especially, every night we endure the horrible and disruptive, undoubtedly mostly illegal and unneighborly loud roars and whines of motorcycles through the streets of the city, also often obviously exceeding the speed limit.
It makes life here stressful and more uncivilized and uncouth than it needs to be.
Would the two of you smart and capable people put your heads together and come up with a plan to stop the law breaking. And once you do, would you please share it with us, the citizens and heavily burdened taxpayers of New Haven?
Thank you.

p.s. the photo is taken in Atlanta or Baltimore where, as with so many other cities, this issues is a problem with its citizens crying out for a solution.

Effective now, as of July 1, cyclists don't have to ride as close to the right side of the road when:
Overtaking or passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction;
Preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway;
Reasonably necessary to avoid conditions, including, but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, parked or moving vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards or lanes that are too narrow for a bicycle and a motor vehicle to travel safely side by side within such lanes;
Approaching an intersection where right turns are permitted and there is a dedicated right turn lane, in which case a bicyclist may ride on the left-hand side of such dedicated lane, even if the bicyclist does not intend to turn right;
Riding on a roadway designated for one-way traffic, when the bicyclist may ride as near to the left-hand curb or edge of such roadway as judged safe by the bicyclist; or when
Riding on parts of roadways separated for the exclusive use of bicycles, including, but not limited to, contra-flow bicycle lanes, left-handed cycle tracks or bicycle lanes on one-way streets and two-way cycle tracks or bicycle lanes.

People driving down the one-lane, one-way, heavy-with-pedestrians-and-dogwalkers-and-people-pushing-baby-carriages block of Court Street, people so impatient to get on I91 or I95 that they zoom down this street the wrong way.
I believe they think that if they do it fast (i.e. recklessly fast given that at any time somebody going the correct direction could drive up) it'll be okay.
New Haven Police Department, please put a stop to this. Again, it happens between 5 and 6 p.m. weekdays.
Thanks

New Haven Parks department:
Garbage bins need to be emptied in Wooster Square. Three are overflowing and trash being strewn.
Thanks

At the lovely curve up Farnam Drive (near East Rock's entrance) where the turnaround used to exist where people could pull in and enjoy the views (the turnaround that had to be blocked off by a pile of rocks and debris because local citizens kept using it for dumping old televisions, furniture, mattresses and other household garbage), somebody has thrown out a full bag of McDonalds food waste. By the time you read this, the trash will have been blown down the hill and down the road but will have been replaced by other garbage, including but not limited car-borne trash from Wendy's and Burger King, as well as cigarette and padded blunt cigar packages, 16 oz. beer cans, soda cans, Starbucks cups, paper napkins by the reams, tiny little liquor bottles, big liquor bottles. cardboard boxes of all sizes, etc..
So what does this post expect to happen by being posted?
Nothing.
The citizens of New Haven and Hamden seem not very bothered by living in filth.

Found on the beautiful road that leads to the top of East Rock Park about 1/8 mile from the summit: fast food trash from McDonalds, an empty Marlboro package, another empty cigarette package of unrecognized maker, an empty flavored cigar package, a Net10 Services Guide, miscellaneous pieces of wadded paper, all apparently accidentally dropped from a moving car. Also included is an ATM receipt dated 5:55 p.m. on Friday, May 8, for a $200 withdrawal using a debit card with the last four digits of 8063 and an available balance of $16.27. If you accidentally lost all this trash, please get in touch with me so that I may return it to you. Thanks.

I do not witness those responsible for dumping all this trash on The Green. I see people of all types walking on the green or sitting or sleeping on park benches.
It could be that nearly everybody who walks on The Green or relaxes on The Green throws trash on the ground and that the responsibility for this filth is broad.
It could be that students, people who work downtown and take a shortcut or lunchtime break on The Green, or the many homeless, or the few cops you see, or the people waiting for a bus, or tourists visiting New Haven all believe that when it's time to dispose of that Starbucks cup, hamburger wrapper, plastic food container, newspaper, beer can -- the place to put the discarded item is on the ground.
The point is: Whomever is throwing trash on the ground: IT IS ILLEGL AND DISGUSTING SO PLEASE STOP DOING IT.
I'm ask the people of New Haven, the Mayor and city administration, the New Haven Police Department, the influential voices at Yale, the Health Department, the Department of Social Services, and The Committee of the Proprietors of Common and Undivided Lands at New Haven to please -- PLEASE!!! -- work together to stop this littering and abuse of The Green.
Proprietors, Mayor, Important People in the City: Please fix this disgusting problem. You know it’s a problem, you know it’s disgusting. You’re all highly capable adults, so please fix this problem.

Every trash bin in Wooster Square is overflowing.

Big gray BMW parked all night and all day beneath a NO STANDING sign on Court street, which is one-lane, one-way, no-parking for the length of the block.
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, please come ticket this scofflaw.
Thank you.

Not sure who's responsible, most probably somebody who doesn't know any better, but one of the tenants at 10 Court Street keeps putting out for collection pieces of a broken dresser or chest made of gray plastic and white glass. It was put out last week and wasn't picked up and it was put out again this week and wasn't picked up -- because it is neither rubbish or recyclables, simply dumped on the ground by the street. Meanwhile, it's still sitting there and making the neighborhood that we all take a lot of pride in look trashy.
To whomever owns this trash, please take it to the New Haven Transfer station at 260 Middletown Ave. in New Haven. It will likely be absolutely free to dump it. I believe they're open until 3 p.m. but you might want to call (203) 946-8109 to make sure. Thanks.

The loud obnoxious and dangerous young mask-wearing men on quads and 3-wheelers are back on the street, on State at Chapel this afternoon, doing wheelies and darting recklessly in and out of traffic. Although nothing will be done about it, we nevertheless should continue to complain. They do a great deal to diminish the quality of life in New Haven. --Sincerely, a voter and overtaxed taxpayer

At least once a week somebody goes barreling down the one-way block of Court Street the wrong way. There seems to be adequate signage at the Olive Street end yet despite that some people use it as a shortcut around the Olive/Chapel intersection. I don't believe there's been an accident yet, but driving the wrong way down a one-way street certainly tempts fate. Can Traffic Safety propose a way to halt this behavior?

This bin has been full for 3 weeks and yet people keep throwing trash “at” it and allowing trash fall into the snow. All the stinkiness is presently preserved by the cold.
City: Could you please put this on your pick up list for one day soon?