Kate Rozen
@katerozen.bsky.social
Plays it close to the vest. One of your neighbors. Transportation planner & advocate. Cargo E-Bike enthusiast. Vice-chair of @ct-ptc.bsky.social. Master of Sustainable Transportation, UW alumna. AICP Candidate. She/her. - Connecticut, US
The reason so many of us get annoyed about conversations around e-bikes is that we are seeing cities and towns taking dramatic steps to try and curtail e-bike usage while they shrug at the daily carnage caused by cars. It's extra infuriating because e-bikes ARE REPLACING CARS.
Public transit investment strengthens communities and supports long-term economic growth. @ctdot-official.bsky.social’s $307M MOVE New Haven Bus Rapid Transit Project will deliver faster, safer service and better connect residents to jobs, schools & opportunities yaledailynews.com/articles/sta...
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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Advocates in CT spent over a decade trying to get automated enforcement to reduce speeding and redlight running with tremendous oversight over the program to only have police depts with NO oversight dropping flock cameras everywhere. WTF.
On train lines that share commuter functions with Amtrak, why does it feel like Amtrak mucks the local schedule up on purpose?
From April 2026 www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
Amtrak sues Metro-North over access to routes - Trains
NEW YORK — Amtrak is suing the Metro-North Railroad, saying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority commuter operator will not allow tests of NextGen Acela trains on Metro-North routes. In a suit filed on Wednesday, April 22, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Amtrak is seeking an injunction allowing it to operate [...]Read More...
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From October 2025 www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
MTA CEO blasts Amtrak for delays on Penn Access project (additional update) - Trains
NEW YORK — Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Janno Lieber has blasted Amtrak for a lack of cooperation on the Penn Access infrastructure project, saying the situation is “outrageous, and it’s been a problem from the start of that project.“ Amtrak, which initially called Lieber’s statements “misinformation,” updated its initial statement Tuesday afternoon with details on [...]Read More...
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And that's why we can't have high-speed rail. Look at all those curves! 😀
Read my politely rage filled thread about how CT is putting ridership at risk on the eve of investment in new rail cars. Sounds familiar - like the M8s on Shore Line East
Kate Rozen@katerozen.bsky.social · last mo.Let's talk about how Amtrak is a bad landlord and roommate with local commuter rail. #HarfordLine #Connecticut #Amtrak
Let's talk about how Amtrak is a bad landlord and roommate with local commuter rail. #HarfordLine #Connecticut #Amtrak
Our neighbor to the north is using revenue from this program to support transit investments/fare free service at the district level. CT should have this.
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A New Haven county gubernatorial candidate versus two Greenwich candidates.
CT folks- our amazing, intrepid reporters Ginny and Dave have won a freaking Pulitzer!! (Of course they did. Ginny's previous work could have also won) www.pulitzer.org/winners/dave...
Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica
For an impressive series exposing how the state’s unique towing laws favored unscrupulous companies that overcharged residents, prompting swift and meaningful consumer protections.
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“The case for cargo bikes is no longer theoretical. They are already delivering measurable savings and reshaping how some families move through cities. What remains uncertain is how quickly infrastructure and policy will catch up.”
Momentum Magazine@momentummag.bsky.social · 4mo agoElectric Cargo Bike vs The Second Car: Study Shows How Families can Save Thousands. momentummag.com/electric-car...
There is a huge shift in climate politics happening RIGHT NOW in Santa Marta, Colombia. Countries are meeting to discuss a treaty to phase out fossil fuels -- the one issue that #UNFCCC has studiously avoided for 30 years. 🧵
We did it again, new record for utility scale solar (Front of Meter) production in New England today thanks to clear blue sky Let's zoom out, the amount of utility scale on our grid has tripled in just five years and came up just below a full GW today at peak production
Urban Dispatch@urbandispatch.bsky.social · 4mo agoFolks: We are dangerously (positive) close to outdoing yesterday's solar records here in New England
While I'll stipulate that NHTSA fatality data is essential to improving traffic safety and an amazing resource It's always interesting to dig in One thing I noticed today is that we've had no deaths of a "person on a personal conveyance" since 2021 No scooter deaths, no wheelchair deaths, really?
@bethosborne.bsky.social · 5mo agoUSDOT claims record low traffic deaths. Save your celebrations. Fatalities are back to the 2019 level and far above 2014. Even with the decrease, fatalities per 100,000 people is still way above any country that we would consider a peer. www.smartgrowthamerica.org/knowledge-hu...
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
“This is a clear example of what happens when our industry shows up together,” said Jenn Dice, President and CEO of @peopleforbikes.bsky.social Great news! Can yall make safe networks for bicycling a core part of our Federal transpo program next?
'This is a clear example of what happens when our industry shows up together' - US bike industry protected from latest round of tariffs
US administration has rolled back plans to include bicycles in steel and aluminium tariffs
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Cities always say they can't possibly do it. Paris just went ahead and did it. In ten years. #LiveableCities #ActiveTransportation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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BREAKING: Thousands of Iranians are gathering on bridges and around power plants right now, forming human chains after threats of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure.
This is what the big freakout is about... This is the scale of the solar installed in East Windsor and Ellington that we apparently need to undo and put up a bunch of regulatory barriers... Asking, please, can a single person in CT take a public stand and attempt to win the narrative battle?
Tom Broderick@trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 5mo agoConnecticut: no, you can’t build solar farms or clean energy infrastructure. No, you can’t build battery storage. No, you can’t build homes. No, you can’t sell your farm even if it’s no longer viable. No, your kids can’t attend our schools. www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
Connecticut getting dragged for its housing crisis on jeopardy 🫠
Open New York@opennewyork.org · 5mo agoThe current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."
"We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers," writes @sanders.senate.gov. "Let’s choose democracy over oligarchy."
Yes, the rich must start paying their fair share of taxes | Bernie Sanders
We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a 10-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers
theguardian.com
This is data that I've wanted for YEARS. Having "no way" (emphasis mine) to track vehicle registrations makes all of us less safe. What are the numbers for hit and runs? How many vehicles now have illegal tints? Either you do your job or you don't, CT DMV. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
More than 32,000 tickets issued in Connecticut for unregistered vehicles, data s
Connecticut officials can't say for certain how many drivers are on the road with expired vehicle registrations.
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New England at this moment is running almost 1/4 on renewables, 1/3 nuclear before factoring behind the meter solar So much so, real time energy prices are negative. This is why we need grid batteries, soak up that excess and shift to the evening (arbitrage) Its happening yall
Lawrence Vulis@lvulis.bsky.social · 5mo agoBanging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...
Smart planning🚨: Moving train station from a highway interchange to downtown, doing quality TOD, making a bunch of pedestrian improvements, adding bike infrastructure and rolling out viable bus transit service with 20 minute headways 7 days a week to the airport through the dense part of the town 💪
Hartford Courant@hartfordcourant.bsky.social · 5mo agoAs Connecticut tries to foster fresh development along railroad lines, a developer is embarking on a 120-unit mixed-income apartment complex just yards from a soon-to-open station.
