Happy New Year from NCAT!

 Successful 2025 Highlighted by the NCAT Networking Dinner! 

More than a 100 organizers, community leaders, and educators made the NCAT Annual Networking dinner at Gateway Community College a huge success. Presenters and attendees from around the state (Wethersfield, Wallingford, West Hartford, Trumbull and more!) came together in New Haven to strategize, organize and energize our work for 2026. Better active transportation, safer streets, more education programming are officially in the queue.

Thanks to more than $7,000 in donations, which will be matched by the NCAT board, we will be able to move ahead with the next year of our New Haven Public Schools elementary education program. In fact, it already began in December with 2nd grade classes at Barack Obama Magnet University School, led by Education Director Angus Lamont.

Our fundraising link is open until Dr. King's birthday on Jan 15. If you haven't had a chance to make a pledge, please do so. Every amount helps. All donations will be matched by the NCAT board to double your impact.

Happy New Year!

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January Events with NCAT and Friends

• Fridays in January - 8 am to 10 am - Bradley Street Bike Co-Op Coffee Outside: Ride Up East Rock Co-Op Events Page

•  Until Jan. 6, visit a new CT Rail car model on non-holiday Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9 a.m. and 12 pm to 2:30 p.m. until Jan. 6 at New Haven Union Station. (More below)

• Tuesdays and Thursdays - 4 pm to 7 pm, Open Shop Hours at Bradley Street Bike Co-Op Co-Op Events Page

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Bike Racks and Bathrooms are Better on New CT Rail Car Models

The State of Connecticut is scheduled to receive 60 new train cars worth $320 million. A life-size model displaying passenger amenities including new seat and table designs, new bathrooms and multi-bike racks is on display at Union Station New Haven until January 6.

The public is invited to provide feedback on the design. According to the New Haven Independent, the cars were ordered in August 2023 to replace all the Mafersa coaches that are currently part of the Hartford Line’s fleet used on the Metro-North, Waterbury and Danbury branch lines.

They are designed to travel up to 125 miles per hour and include an ADA-accessible bathroom on each end of a pair of train cars. There are also four workstation tables per car and an outlet and USB charging port at each seat pair. The design includes storage for four bicycles in each car, wifi and real-time route information displays.

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Can you help support our organization with a donation today? NCAT is made up mostly of volunteers and we do a lot with every dollar.

Help Support NCAT!

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