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'The solution to congestion and parking supply problems is to build all manner of alternatives - walkable streets, mixed-use developments near stations, improved public transit, and safe bike lanes.' 'Since the new state garage was proposed, studies by transportation experts have shown that building a garage has the same result as building new highway lanes - both induce more demand, and the congestion and parking supply problems are amplified,' the report said. In January, the New Haven Urban Design League argued in a 37-page report that the garage project would not only 'snarl major city streets' and have little impact reducing highway traffic, it would also employ few workers and contribute no taxes. If you do something that will add even more traffic where there’s elderly people and you have a street that’s not functioning properly with poor traffic and no bike lanes you’re just going to be compounding the problem. “This is an area that is a diesel hot zone. “That’s why we have sound-proof glass,” New Haven Urban Design League president Anstress Farwell told Streetsblog.

Union station parking new haven plus#

The construction of housing and office space - plus improving bus transit to the station - are better solutions, advocates say. The structure would contain retail stores at the street level, according to New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, but transit advocates hoped it would be scrapped entirely because the structure will only attract more gas-spewing vehicles clogging downtown streets. The Nutmeg State plans to construct a hulking six-story 1,000-space garage down the street from an existing five-story garage on Unio n Avenue. 'But we are willing to work with the city to find a solution that will work for both sides.' “I am saying we need another garage,' Giulietti added. “Putting a next to an active rail yard has never worked successfully because of the constant noise of the trains moving, the horns blowing - all the things that people don’t want to live next to,” state Department of Transportation Commissioner Joseph Giulietti, said at an unrelated press conference in New Haven last week. Connecticut leaders are moving ahead with a $60-million parking garage next to another garage at New Haven’s Union Station instead of housing because the state’s transportation commissioner doesn’t think people want to live within walking distance of a train station.