In response to an annual transportation spending study published by the Reason Foundation, Connecticut’s Department of Transportation has started to reclassify the way it reports transportation spending to the federal government, according to CT DOT
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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
The House of Representatives on Friday referred Gov. Ned Lamont’s tolling bill to the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee for approval on the heels of Lamont’s open letter to legislators imploring them to take action
The administration and legislative supporters of tolls have marketed their proposal with claims that a statewide tolling plan, including significant discounts for in-state drivers, would result in the state collecting high levels of revenue from
**Download the PDF Version with Illustrations and Graphs Here** To Connecticut’s east lies a particularly unusual stretch of highway. For starters, it doesn’t really lead anywhere. While most highways connect high-traffic roads or major cities,
Connecticut receives more federal transportation dollars per capita than most states which have tolls on limited sections of their interstate highways, according to data collected from the Federal Highway Administration. Of the 22 states that have
Proponents of adding tolls to Connecticut’s highways often point to New York, Massachusetts or New Jersey in an effort to show Connecticut as an outlier, letting potential transportation revenue slip through the state. But data