Answer Murphy's Call for Commute Stories with ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION Solutions

10/15/2015

Connecticut's US Senator Chris Murphy wants to "bring a human face to the debate over transportation funding and fight for investments that are smart and driven by you."

Please send the message that creating safe, connected networks for biking and walking is an extremely cost-efficient way to give people real options for getting around without relying on a car for every errand, every outing, and every commute.

To join this conversation, visit www.murphy.senate.gov/fedup and share your perspective.

Here's Senator Murphy's message:

As I travel across Connecticut, I’ve heard countless stories from people about how our transportation system has failed them. A barber commuting from Waterbury to Bridgeport has to choose between serving customers from the after-work rush and making it home for dinner because there is a four-hour wait between trains. A working mom in Norwalk can almost never make her son’s baseball games because of traffic on I-95. A Milford businessman routinely has to budget two hours to travel fewer than twenty-five miles.

People are fed up. Connecticut has some of the worst traffic and the oldest infrastructure in the nation. Traffic, congestion, and delays are more than abstract concepts that affect commerce or productivity. Traffic means stress. Congestion means being late for work. Delays mean missing dinner with your kids night after night.

That’s why I'm reaching out to you. I want to hear your story. How long is your commute? What would a shorter, more reliable commute mean to you and your family? Why you are fed up?

To join this conversation, I encourage you to visit www.murphy.senate.gov/fedup and share your perspective.

I will take your stories to Washington to bring a human face to the debate over transportation funding and fight for investments that are smart and driven by you. Because it’s about time we fix this.

All my best,
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy
Washington: 136 Hart Senate Office Bldg. , Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-4041
Hartford: One Constitution Plaza, 7th Fl., Hartford, Connecticut 06103 (860) 549-8463

Brian Sheffer

10/15/2015 10:35:41 am

I bicycle to work so the amount of time it takes is consistent. It almost always takes about 1/2 hour. I am concerned with the infrastructure in place for bicycling. The bicycle path on the Gold Star bridge is too narrow. There are also blind corners on the Gold Star bridge bike path that make my commute dangerous. Roads in New London and Groton are built to maximize automobile speed and sacrifice bicycle and pedestrian safety. The roads should be redesigned with narrower lanes for cars along with other traffic calming features to slow the cars.

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Answer Murphy's Call for Commute Stories with ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION Solutions

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