I’m heading to Australia on Wednesday. Think I’m leaving at the right time!

Tunxis is usually open unless there's an active localized natural disaster currently in progress.

Agreed,but amenities are baked into the price of home purchases. I'm still new to CT, but here in Woodbridge the build-out of sidewalks would cost a large fortune and no way would I want to pay for that.

Cyclists have the right to take the full lane anytime.

IKR? We're supposed to be one of the most densely populated states and yet you can stand atop Heublein Tower and see nothing but trees in either direction. If this is dense population, what is the rest of the U.S. like?

I will happily be inconvenienced for a knowledge test at renewal. That alone will prevent a number of unqualified people from getting behind a wheel. Will it truly stop bad drivers? No, but it's a step forward

Gee, imagine that.

"Urban Connecticut" isn't exactly most of Connecticut, but I hear you.

Eminent domain for proper bike infrastructure? Yes please and thank you

For anyone who doesn't know, /r/CTinsideinvestigator is just the Yankee Institute trying to obscure it's origins, disregard anything it says.

I've always called that the California roll

True. Makes sense. It stops people from slipping through the cracks. I’m guessing in a situation where a DUI is the only moving violation on their record, the prosecutor would be able to require the retraining that wouldn’t be automatically triggered by the current DMV rules? Or if the driver catches a reckless driving charge that’s also only the first moving violation? If that’s the case, then yes, do it. It makes sense.

I feel like the Idaho Stop works better in out-of-the-way uncrowded places than it would in urban Connecticut

I’d actually go air source heat pump (mini split) if I did it over again. The geo is great, but the payback period is a lot longer. The coefficient of performance is only slightly better on geo vs air source (4 vs 3).

There shouldn’t be residential areas without sidewalks, it’s dangerous for the residents and it’s dangerous for the drivers, that’s my point

That's a crazy cool website. Also what a blast from the past, I haven't been in decades but it was a really cool place.

If you can afford to live somewhere with NO sidewalks, then you can easily afford to live somewhere with sidewalks.

The issue here is the quality of inner city schools, no?

This is better for drivers too - I don't want to sit there and wait for a biker to fully stop and start again when they beat me to a 4way stop by a half-a-second. And while I would do it, some drivers wouldn't, which is unpredictable and unsafe.

Important first step. They need to fund the construction of sidewalks and trails too. All state maintained routes should have plan to get either sidewalks or full shoulders within the next 10 years. With climate change the existential threat of our lifetime, we need to encourage more human powered transportation but not at the expense of lives.

dreading it already, oil bill has been kind the past month

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You're right, no one is. It's actually a portmanteau, but you can absolutely avoid using it. Many of us will continue using it as it describes a particular type of street. Roads are also not always considered streets as well.

That’s DMV. I haven’t read the bill but the comment says this allows prosecutors to, I assume, make it a condition of a plea deal or sentence.

The "BuT BiKeS sHoUlD aCt lIkE cArS" crowd always seems to forget that traffic laws are about safety, and there's a difference between a vehicle that weighs a couple thousand pounds and a couple hundred (including the rider).

Introducing more bike lanes would be a great opportunity to fix a lot of the speedways you get around CT.

Roads is sufficient. Or streets. If you want to continue using a dumb non word, have at it. Nobody is stopping you.