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WCA Home Page
Whitneyville.org is the website of the Whitneyville Civic Association (WCA), a neighborhood association which provides residents and business owners in the Whitneyville community with a voice in civic matters concerning our neighborhood.
We organize to maintain and promote the unique social, ecological and historic character of Whitneyville. Members and friends of the WCA meet 6 times each year to share ideas and hear about issues affecting our neighborhood.
Mark Your Calendar
Upcoming Public WCA Meeting:
Thursday, January 12th
Whitneyville United Church of Christ
(Basement)
1253 Whitney Ave.
7:00 PM - 9:00PM
Parking on the church grounds or across the street in the Municipal Lot
Public is Welcome
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Please note:
After some neglect we are updating this web site. It is a work in progress and there is a bit of a learning curve we are experiencing as we do this. In most cases it will be fairly obvious if something is current or if the information is referring to meetings or events from a year or more ago. It is our intention that in the next couple of months this will, once again be completely up to date and relevant. Thank you for your patience as we work through this.
Bike Lanes/Sharrows Arrive in Whitneyville!
Whitneyville got Hamden's first Bike Lanes/Sharrows (PDf on 'sharrow' lanes) The Whitneyville Civic Association has been working on this for over two years and now we have the first ones on Putnam Ave. When Augur Street has been repaved (the Week of Nov. 7-11) we should get the next one connecting to the Farmington Canal Bike Trail. This is all part of the over all plan for traffic calming in the the Southern Hamden area. Along with adding the Sharrow on Putnam we have also increased parking along the west end of Putnam Ave. and the Parking has been marked out. This has effectively narrowed Putnam Ave. which, in almost all cases, slows traffic through an area. Keep an eye out for an "Critical Mass" bike ride to celebrate this event. Come on down to the meeting Jan 12th in the basement of the Whitneyville Church to learn more about what is happening local regarding traffic calming and safety.
Traffic Study In Progress!
The Whitneyville Civic Association along with the Spring Glen Civic Association as well as other groups have been pushing for a comprehensive traffic study for southern Hamden to see what measures we might take to calm traffic and make our neighborhoods safer and more "Livable". After much preliminary work, studies, and traffic measurements we are happy to say that Hamden in now in the process of doing just that. We have had public meetings with the professional traffic consultants the city has hired to help with this issue. In one of the recent meetings the consultants gave us some background on traffic calming, what is and what is not traffic calming and what tools/options were available to us in this regard. After the "educational" component of the meeting we had the opportunity to speard out some large maps and go over our neighborhoods one street at a time looking at all the possibilities, each intersections and voice our opinions on which of the various tools might be the most effective and cost effective. We had the opportunity to educate the consultants a bit too about areas in question beyond what a simple statistical traffic study might tell them. We were able to give them a much richer context for the neighborhoods than they would otherwise have. They too lots of notes and let us know there would be other meetings for more dialogue before they make their recommendations to the city.
Many Thanks to the countless hours Lisa kamemoto and her team have put in on this issue
WCA's Top 5 Priority List:
(as of Sept 2011)
1. Traffic Calming Initiatives: building of a traffic circle at the 5- corner point on Mather; speed humps on key roads/locations (Mather, Treadwell, Carleton).
2. Putnam/Augur bike lane
3. Fix the Putnam and Whitney Ave crossing (the heart of
Whitneyville): repair the electric conduits sticking out of the ground and sidewalks; add bike racks.
4. Maintain funding for the Whitneyville Branch Library. Change schedule to include Saturday mornings.
New # 5: Install a bicycle rack
For additional information, contact us at info@whitneyville.org
The Whitneyville Civic Association
P.O. Box 6031
Hamden, CT 06517
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