You literally just described "traffic calming" infrastructure design.

which for what it's worth, new haven is doing with it's new intersection and road improvements throughout the city.

This is true unfortunately. I am also grad student who had a similar situation and have a few tips.

• Do you have a pre-existing condition or a new issue? I have ulcerative colitis (have had it many years) and was having a severe flare earlier this year but they couldn’t get me in to GI for months. Eventually I just called Yale Health Student Health primary care and they were able to see me same day and prescribe me steroids. It isn’t a permanent fix but it restored my ability to function. You may have heard that Yale Health student health is horribly incompetent. This can be true. It really depends who you get. This approach works best if your condition is a chronic one and you know exactly what you need.
• Acute care is also an option
• Are you by chance still under 26 / on your parents insurance? If so, you could try going that route. See what’s in-network there and if you can make an appointment with GI without a referral, or if you can get a primary care Appt in network with that insurance and then GI referral through that
• If your only insurance is yale student, you’re going to have a much tougher time. It’s a PPO meaning that they only cover in network, ie, at the student health center, unless you have a very specific referral out. Confusingly, not all yale physician groups are in network with yale student health. You can ask member services about specific doctors, but you might have a very tough time finding one that they’ll cover.

Feel free to DM me if you have more questions as well

Hm who's more likely to have caused a pedestrian's death, the pedestrian or the person operating the massive machine that killed them

Hmmm

Enforcing any kind of motor vehicle infractions effectively would require an incredible number of uniformed officers, if enforcement is to remain in the hands of officers. It is simply impossible to place officers at every intersection, or even every major problem intersection, and then so, the entire police force would be on traffic duty and not attending to more pressing matters.

This is why, revenue completely aside, traffic enforcement needs to be automated to the fullest extent possible both internally (speed governors inside cars, technology to prevent distracted driving, etc) and externally (red light & speeding cameras), and then if any human interaction is needed, it's done by department of transportation or DMV reps, not armed officers.

It has been known in CT for a while that camera enforcement is "illegal" per state statute, however, at a recent meeting of the CT Vision Zero Council (which I am a member of), it was brought up by the state that technically, camera enforcement isn't explicity prohibited, nor is it explicit that motor vehicle enforcement has to be done by an in-person officer. There is also prima facie presumption of accuracy for other speed-monitoring devices police use such as radar guns, and that presumption can be extended to "any other speed monitoring device approved by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Pubic Protection." But the state would likely still pursue some legislative changes if it moves forward to prevent any challenges.

Who ever you choose, avoid BetterHelp. I've heard terrible things about the platform from friends.

I've heard great things about finding a therapist on open path collective & psych today. Best of luck!

The CT ACLU was also strongly opposed. There was also concern about the shadiness of the private companies selling and installing the cameras, particularly what agencies they’d release the footage to, like ICE. New Haven got city IDs in the late 2010s, so immigrants could have basic ID so they could get a bank account and not be a target for mugging. ICE retaliated by targeting New Haven for immigration roundups. So the question of public surveillance was (and still is) a big concern.

Eta: ACLU was concerned about due diligence, fairness, and privacy. I’m not sure if their stance had changed.

https://www.acluct.org/en/press-releases/traffic-light-cameras-still-a-bad-idea

I found my therapist at https://www.psychologytoday.com

They have a lot of filters, including insurance, issues, types of therapy, patient age, etc.

lol except the police haven't been fucking defunded, so

Unfortunately Yale Health is actually one of the fastest. If you need a specialist, you’ll need a referral most likely. Either way, you’ll have to pay out of pocket if it’s out of network (which anything non Yale will be if you’re Yale Health). The system is backed up nation wide, and especially in our local area.

I have gotten parking tickets while there was still time on the meter more than once

it didn't "neuter" them, it straight up turned a broad swathe of these grown-ass professional adults into sulky little "we'll show YOU" type diaper babies who deliberately withhold some degree of effort on the job because nobody appweciates them.

Red light cameras are illegal by state law. Revenue from traffic tickets goes to the state, not municipalities.

I watched Spain v Germany at Archie Moore’s and it was great.

Good luck. There has been mile long waiting lists for people who treat teens.

>Frustration with infrastructure maybe

yep it's baked in. driving in cities sucks, especially new haven with the freeway exits leading to pedestrian lanes or carriageways from 1650

I just went to a great GI guy Westport if you can make it down there. He was at the Yale Digestive Health center there, not sure if it’s ok to give the doctor’s actual name on here though. It was like a month and half wait for the appointment though, I tried calling every number I could find on Google and that was the fasted I could be seen by a GI specialist, but I have state insurance so you might be luckier if you have private.

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I had a terrible experience with Yale Student Health even going in with a diagnosed GI issue. I’ve had a great experience with PACT Gastro and happy to chat in DMs

Because “defund the police”

This is just the fatalities as well, the number of injured is magnitudes more

They used to give out a lot more tickets though, like, 10,000 more. The number of tickets issued peaked around 2009 after a bunch of pedestrians were killed and people complained. Then people stopped complaining and the police stopped enforcing traffic laws I guess.

I don't have the article handy, I think it was the CTMirror, but for what it's worth, of the 4 100k+ cities, NHV actually had by far the most traffic stops.

They shot it down because suburban legislators said no so they can keep speeding through our city streets

Ah, well i certainly meant the awards should go for the information about where the money goes for all the things I'm seeing getting worse and worse.