People want to move to Milford. Do you want the city to keep developing single family homes on farmland/woods where you need to own a car and contribute to traffic, or do you want existing lots near transit to be redeveloped to allow multifamily units?

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That was easy. Thanks!

https://stpatricksdayparade.org/parking/

As someone who has rented - mostly in Milford - since coming to Connecticut 12 years ago, I love the fact that Milford continues to add apartments. The more, the merrier.

Yeah. I’m familiar with the city. Wondering if the municipal lots like at the end of Audubon on State will be towing or not

Goal is to think in terms of “not wanting to get too close to Chapel St or the Green.” If you can walk a bit and coming from Hamden, Fair Haven, East Rock , then I say park on State St.

I use https://onthegomap.com/#/create to see mileage and elevation for my hikes.

If you are adventurous, bang a right at the Yellow trail and take that down to Mountain road, bang a left, bang a right on to the red trail.

All other trails are treacherous for bikes. I've seen people take the orange trail down, but it is really rocky.

Interesting, yes, safe...not so much. If your bike can handle trails, the Sanford feeder over to Brook, I think to Downs Road, that goes by the reservoirs in Woodbridge. https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/connecticut/sanford-feeder-trai-regicides-blue-blaze-trail-and-red-blazes-trailo

And if your bike can do trails...down West Shepard, take a right on Hill street, take another right back into the park and follow the red trail left (NOT RIGHT UP). It's muddy a bit. Then you get to Mountain road. Take a right then quick left back on trail. Mountain bikers are all over that trail. The red trail to Wintergreen ave, below the dam, back to the park.

Trying at least.

I was a mile short of reaching W shepard. Any interesting way to get back from there?

A motorcycle is overkill for that commute. I'd just get a bicycle. Or if you really don't like pedaling, an e bike. It's just a few miles and riding a motorcycle in traffic is probably not much fun.

Yeah, for renters Bridgeport is probably more affordable and Bridgeport station easier to bike to, a lot of wide streets and abandoned factories with little traffic in the area to get there. take your bike up in the elevator

and Milford train station, which is really small and charming would probably suck for biking to. close to Post Road, narrow streets and a lot of cars, unless you lived right by the green which sounds expensive

i've never used it but there's a Shoreline East train to Metro North. it's not expensive compared to gas and parking. it goes all the way to New London.

Rent isn't going to be great along the shoreline but it could expand OP's range a bit

Affordable?( I am lucky to have been born and raised in milford.)

The new apartments behind the funeral home are $1800 for a studio.

Taxes are high for most people. My parents paid $10k a year with Dad's military discount.

Born and Raised.

Though, I HATE the fact that they are building so many apartments and condos. Beginning to look like west haven. So sad.

Bridgeport is staring you in the face.

Goes all the way to West Shepard in Hamden.

Definitely bikeable, especially from Wooster or Downtown to hospital, be careful with locks, and check out the Bradley street bicycle coop for repairs and great bike community

Milford

Since you are renting, taxes won’t be as big of a deal then if you bought, so you might want to look at the Black Rock section of Bridgeport. Definitely has a social life that is walkable. Can walk to a train station. If you are hung up on the taxes, then look at Milford. Also consider when would you be driving to either Fairfield or New Haven, you don’t want to be stuck driving on 95 to Fairfield in the morning!

Yes Baldwin. An hour of nothing but quiet time.

Adding lots of separated lanes but only a few protected or grade separated lanes (i don't count plastic bollards as protected), but the city is drastically improving it's infrastructure pretty rapidly. But there's lots of streets still without anything

Honestly super disappointed we didn't get a new bike lane on De Grasso when they took away that car lane for portions of it, so easy to just stripe it for bike cuz they already repainted and installed the plastic bollards, nice wide berth from the cars too

Wooster to YNHH is not bad at all on a bike if you take the right streets. You can stay on grade separated bike lanes almost the entire route, but the bits that aren't separated, definitely be careful as others have said

New haven is putting a lot of work in becoming a very bike friendly city with lots of grade separated or protected bike lanes but we're not there yet, but the city adds several miles every year to the separated/protected infrastructure. Last year I think they added nearly 20 miles of new lanes along a few key routes, many more in the works/planning stages