I REALLY wish they'd raze those terrible projects and build a connection to downtown. Projects across the street from a train station is such a bad use of that land.

Install a path of Blue Emergency Phones from the Train Station to Downtown. The installations themselves will act to create an optimal pedestrian route for people to follow, which is especially helpful for people who arrive in New Haven for their first time. The Blue Phones will create a route that others will follow making it less likely that an individual will find them self completely alone while walking from the Train Station to Downtown.

The path created can monitored by police (on bike or otherwise) more efficiently. The Blue Phone stations will light the path and, if necessary, provide a person an immediate and direct line of communication to Police Officers and provide Police Officers an improved method for locating a crime in progress.

Paul,
This sounds like a project for Town Green. I know there's a ton of federal money out there for way-finding right now. It would be great to we it put to use here.

How about demolishing the projects? How can you "trespass" on land that millions of tax dollars - pulic money - has been thrown down the drain on a total failure of social engineering,architecture, etc.?

I know there's a lot of long term thinking on this, but how about for the short term? For instance, how can the powers that be at least make sure that the underpass between the police station and the Knights of Columbus Museum is shoveled? It's been nearly impassible.

Happy to report that work is underway on this. Can’t wait to see.