Mary Donegan
@drdonegan.bsky.social
Planning/policy research and teaching. All the yarn things, always tired, interested in making places better. Parent to kids in too many activities. She/her in nutmeggerland by way of NH MA & NC. Not my employer's views.
Hey hey checking in from across town with a 13yo trumpet player in the jazz band! Your side's high school band director is known in town as the best for trumpet.
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hey hey checking in from across town with a 13yo trumpet player in the jazz band! Your side's high school band director is known in town as the best for trumpet.
My spouse still talks about what a perfect phone that was & I'm honestly shocked we're not the only people on this earth who remember it.
September 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My spouse still talks about what a perfect phone that was & I'm honestly shocked we're not the only people on this earth who remember it.
I love taking trains. And at the YIMBYtown conference, when a woman from AR said I was living the dream taking the train every day, I thought yes. I am. Connecticut is a great place to live.
But it could be a bit better if the boards were right & folks didn't have to guess/go on vibes.
But it could be a bit better if the boards were right & folks didn't have to guess/go on vibes.
September 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I love taking trains. And at the YIMBYtown conference, when a woman from AR said I was living the dream taking the train every day, I thought yes. I am. Connecticut is a great place to live.
But it could be a bit better if the boards were right & folks didn't have to guess/go on vibes.
But it could be a bit better if the boards were right & folks didn't have to guess/go on vibes.
Being an urban planning researcher, I of course approached folks on the platform to chat. 😂 They confirmed yes, the boards do this. Yes, they just go on vibes -- "you get a feeling for when they'll be late" (FTR: you can go to the Hartford Line website and see updates and sign up for text alerts).
September 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Being an urban planning researcher, I of course approached folks on the platform to chat. 😂 They confirmed yes, the boards do this. Yes, they just go on vibes -- "you get a feeling for when they'll be late" (FTR: you can go to the Hartford Line website and see updates and sign up for text alerts).
There are signs in Meriden telling you to listen to announcements for track assignments -- but the announcements don't list tracks, and because the north and southbound trains came at the same time the southbound never got an announcement.
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
There are signs in Meriden telling you to listen to announcements for track assignments -- but the announcements don't list tracks, and because the north and southbound trains came at the same time the southbound never got an announcement.
The trains came! On time! But you have to dig to find alerts. The app's link for service alerts leads to a dead Twitter page -- not the buried page on the Hartford Line website.
September 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The trains came! On time! But you have to dig to find alerts. The app's link for service alerts leads to a dead Twitter page -- not the buried page on the Hartford Line website.
I saw some in Bushnell Park in Hartford so yes, on their way. TOH seem to be everywhere in highway and rail right of ways.
a close up of a man with a beard and long hair saying they are coming
Alt: a close up of gandalf from lotr saying they are coming
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September 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I saw some in Bushnell Park in Hartford so yes, on their way. TOH seem to be everywhere in highway and rail right of ways.
My kids are at camp with a family from Houston that thought they would come up north for a week to get away from the heat and he was like wtf is this nonsense.
July 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My kids are at camp with a family from Houston that thought they would come up north for a week to get away from the heat and he was like wtf is this nonsense.
Thrilled that this is how you chose to celebrate my birthday, good job.
July 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thrilled that this is how you chose to celebrate my birthday, good job.
The incompetence might be the renovation contractors about a decade ago. HVAC was installed with water collection pans -- but the sensors were installed incorrectly so they don't ever empty/alert anyone that they need emptying.
July 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The incompetence might be the renovation contractors about a decade ago. HVAC was installed with water collection pans -- but the sensors were installed incorrectly so they don't ever empty/alert anyone that they need emptying.
Sadly I'm not on campus enough in the summer (the only time this happens) to empty it. The office next to me has one -- and just leaving it for a week grew an extraordinary amount of mold.
July 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sadly I'm not on campus enough in the summer (the only time this happens) to empty it. The office next to me has one -- and just leaving it for a week grew an extraordinary amount of mold.
We just put it on the house. Eversource is allowed to take roughly forever to upgrade your transformer and then roughly forever to turn it on -- and no credit until it's on. Hopefully it gets turned on this year. 🫠
July 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We just put it on the house. Eversource is allowed to take roughly forever to upgrade your transformer and then roughly forever to turn it on -- and no credit until it's on. Hopefully it gets turned on this year. 🫠