Senate Republicans unveiled their latest transportation funding plan which would use $1.5 billion from the state’s Rainy Day Fund to pay off pension debt and remove pension payments from the Special Transportation Fund, thereby freeing up money to leverage federal loans. The plan – dubbed FASTR CT – would also ...
Gov. Ned Lamont is given a tough greeting by toll protesters from No Tolls CT as he arrives at the Capitol building. Democratic senators are filmed being met with jeers of “No tolls,” as they head for the caucus room; television cameras and news reporters swarm in the hallway interviewing ...
Gov. Ned Lamont released his CT2030 website on Thursday after unveiling his ten-year transportation plan at a meeting at Jackson Laboratories in Farmington. The website allows the public to see details of the governor’s plan for highways, bridges and mass transit, lists projects to be completed and funding sources. Noticeably ...
Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz offered a look into Gov. Ned Lamont’s new transportation plan today during a public meeting before the Western Connecticut Council of Governments. The plan involves using low-interest federal loans available through the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Act, part ...
The number of structurally deficient bridges in Connecticut has been used as justification for tolling Connecticut’s major interstates, but data from the Federal Highway Administration shows Connecticut actually has the second-lowest percentage of bridges in need of repair in the Northeast, including states with tolls. As of 2017, the FHWA ...
Move CT Forward, a coalition of construction and labor associations who have thrown their weight behind Gov. Ned Lamont’s plan to install tolls on Connecticut’s highways, spent nearly $1 million on lobbying during the legislative session. According to second quarter filings with the Connecticut Office of State Ethics, Move CT ...