Recent comments in /f/Connecticut

Yeti_Poet t1_j66cmt3 wrote

When I was there many years ago for the Ben Folds and a Piano Tour, he was just cracking up at the setup, with a great big fence down the middle of the venue seperating the 18+ and 21+ sides. No clue if that's still how it is for shows. But he said he'd never played a show before with a "Alcohol drinker's jail and a weed smoker's jail."

Good banter, it was a fun show.

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Enginerdad t1_j66br12 wrote

There we go, now we're addressing the issues. It's not the existence of suburbs, it's the distance between them. But it's also the fact that we've been a car culture for so long that basically everybody outside of cities owns a car, so they don't see a need for public transit. It's this weird Domino effect where, because we didn't have public transit 100 years ago, people figured out other ways to get around (namely cars), so now we don't need public transit as much. But of course we need it a lot more than we have it currently. This car culture is unsustainable both and environmental and traffic sense.

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toasterb t1_j66au3i wrote

Suburbs in CT are way too spread out and that sustains the car culture. I live in Vancouver now, and every time I return home, I am shocked at how much space there is.

Our suburbs look like blocks upon blocks of this, and these aren't dense enough to support the type of transit that could cut traffic significantly.

Sure there are buses in our burbs that are more effective than just about anything in CT, but you need significant multi-family density to really change things.

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JaKr8 t1_j66aio7 wrote

The Jamaican restaurant is incredible.

I think portly Pig is the best BBQ around, and one of the best anywhere, for that matter...

Unfortunately, we haven't had a great experience with mofongo, its been average for the type of food it is, but we've eaten at every restaurant there multiple times, and there is nothing that is truly subbar.

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