Active Transportation Plan

The NVCOG is developing the Active Transportation Plan to enhance walking, rolling, and cycling and to advance mobility equity in the Naugatuck Valley Region.

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SGA Complete Streets Academy

Connecticut was selected to participate in Smart Growth America’s Complete Streets Academy with the cities of Bristol, Middletown, and Waterbury. 

West Street, Bristol
Grand Street, Waterbury

The NVCOG and its partner communities, Waterbury and Bristol, participated in the 2023 Complete Streets Academy, enabling implementation of impactful traffic calming projects in the jurisdictions. The Complete Streets Leadership Academies are a National Complete Streets Coalition and Smart Growth America initiative training public employees and officials in Complete Street best practices, intergovernmental and regional coordination, and “quick-build” temporary infrastructure projects on state roads. 

Each city installed a temporary project to collect data and feedback about complete streets installations on key state owned routes near their respective Downtowns. This data will be used to inform future designs and improvements to these and similar streets to enhance safety, comfort, and pedestrian/bicycle access.

Bristol

West Street, October 2023

Bristol implemented temporary pedestrian safety improvements on West Street, including narrowing the roadway and adding visual elements and improved crosswalks near the Boys & Girls Club of Bristol. The NVCOG staff joined Mayor Jeff Caggiano of Bristol and the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School office to engage Bristol youth and promote pedestrian safety.  

Waterbury

Grand Street, August 2023

Waterbury’s project made Grand Street a more vibrant, pedestrian-friendly location leveraging low-cost materials like tape, cones, and tubular markers to daylight crosswalks and shorten their crossing distance. The project was in place through late September.

Data showed an 11% reduction in traffic speeds within the first two weeks, a crucial step towards enhancing community safety as lowering speeds at the 85th percentile can significantly reduce traffic-related accidents.

Staff Contact: 

Richard Donovan
Transportation Planning Director
rdonovan@nvcogct.gov

Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG)

The 19 Naugatuck Valley municipalities are split among four different planning regions. Each region received 1M dollars to create a Priority Climate Action Plan, Comprehensive Climate Action Plan, and two years of Status Reports. Learn more about your community’s progress.

Waterbury Line Station Projects

The CT Department of Transportation is upgrading all six Waterbury Line Train stations to enhance safety and comfort, making them key community hubs, sources of pride, and gathering places for residents and visitors.

Waterbury WATER Project Performance Measure Data

In support of the Waterbury Active Transportation and Economic Resurgence (WATER) Project, the City of Waterbury and NVCOG will be reporting on several critical performance measures for a five (5) year period following completion of the project. This webpage will contain supplemental information for those performance measures, including images of the project area, raw data collected to support the data provided in the final report, and a copy of the charts and tables presented to the Federal Highway Administration. For additional information or questions about the project, please contact the city of Waterbury. For questions about the data collection efforts, please contact the NVCOG staff contact listed below.

Raw Data Tables

Pedestrian Data – These tables portray the full pedestrian data set as collected by NVCOG staff, as well as expansions to daily, weekly, monthly, and annual estimates. 

Bicyclist Data – These tables portray the full bicyclist data set as collected by NVCOG staff, as well as expansions to daily, weekly, monthly, and annual estimates. 

Traffic Data – These tables portray the full data set as collected by street side radar counters. 

2022 Report to FHWA 

 

NVCOG Staff Contact

Kevin Ellis
Transportation Engineer
kellis@nvcogct.gov

698 South Main Street, Waterbury

NVCOG’s RLF Committee has awarded the Waterbury Development Corporation a subgrant for $277,000, joining an initial award of $200,000 to facilitate cleanup planning and remedial activities.

526 North Main Street, Waterbury

The Regional Brownfield Partnership has awarded NEST, formerly the Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury a $100,000 subgrant for environmental assessment activities.

313 Mill Street, Waterbury

 

Project Type: Cleanup Planning

Activities: A baseball field and community park now stand on the remnants of a former industrial parcel in Waterbury’s south end. In 2012, the former Nova Dye factory burned, leaving a contaminated and vacant parcel in one of the city’s most underserved areas. The project was facilitated by a $200,000 award from NVCOG’s Revolving Loan Fund meant to close environmental data gaps and an additional $3,000,000 provided by the state. The park, adjacent to the Mad River, now provides a safe space for recreational opportunities in a neighborhood that previously had little access to green space. 

Project Status: Remediation and construction work is complete. Environmental monitoring is ongoing. The park is open to the public.

Mad River, Waterbury

River and Building

River and Building

Project Type: Cleanup

NVCOG oversaw a $500,000 grant for assessment and remediation across multiple parcels on behalf of the Waterbury Development Corporation (WDC). The remaining funds were allocated to conduct clean-up activities at Lot 19, where Brass City Harvest has constructed a regional food hub for cleaning and preparing locally-grown foods for distribution.

Project Status: Remediation activities have been completed.