Not everyone will want to cut over to State - bike routes should be direct as possible and most of the commuting population is heading towards the Green, not along State.

Orange from Humphrey Street down to George should be developed as a lower speed "slow street" (aka bicycle boulevard). The section from Elm to George already more or less qualifies as such, except the portion near Center Street which has higher speeds for some reason.

A separated bike path, like those used on the avenues in NY City, could be installed on State Street between Humphrey and Union Station, particularly the section between Audubon and Union Station which is currently unpleasant to bike on due to the very high traffic speeds. A separated path would be used by novice cyclists and people coming into/from downtown to and from Fair Haven + upper state street. The alternative is calming State so it looks more like Orange, with traffic calming and top speeds of 20 miles per hour.

Unfortunately, large #s of people are not going to bike unless you provide comfortable facilities like these.

We need to design cross-city bike routes that are comfortable for all users (including young children) -- not just the small minority of people who claim to feel comfortable riding with high volume and high speed (meaning 15MPH+) traffic.

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State street average speed is 24 mph. There is no way to make direct bike route down orange.

Why not connect it to the new proposed Elm Street bike lane?

Has there been any progress on improving Orange Street between Humphrey and Downtown?

How about cutting car traffic on Orange to make space for a bike lane extension? Most of the cars along Orange seem to be only through traffic anyway, so they could be re-routed to State.

The above sounds like a good idea to me. Make it a pedestrian/cyclist zone.

Melissa and the above - this is done in many other cities. You can still have the truck and car traffic for local access, but you slow it down significantly so that cyclists and pedestrians feel comfortable enough to actually use the street. This is known as a "slow street," part of the widely-used concept of creating a "hierarchy" of streets. I wrote more about it at http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/44709 and at http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/44725. Cambridge has implemented slow streets in some areas and the results have been dramatic - they've shown the % of vehicles traveling in excess of the speed limit to decline from about 60% to 5% in some areas, and I'd imagine we'd see similar figures if we were to do this on Orange or State. Even more importantly, the % of residents scientifically surveyed about whether they felt safer on the street, increased dramatically.

I think that probably both State and Orange could be converted into slow streets and result in a big benefit to the neighborhood without having much of an impact on traffic volumes. Making alternative transportation more feasible for people of all ages and abilities would make this a much better city. Currently New Haven has a very large gap between the % of male cyclists and % of female cyclists, according to the available Census statistics, and also a big gap in terms of age groups.

I believe Humphrey should state it. There is no room for a bike lane on Orang Street. Another dangerous junction is Trumbull https://wordsfromletters.co/