High-speed rail shouldn’t bypass Connecticut, said a federal official. And it won’t, vowed the state’s senior U.S. senator. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and acting Federal Railway Administrator Sarah Feinberg made those declarations Friday as they joined Mayor Toni Harp at Union Station to tell the Republican-controlled Congress they won’t let the state be cut out of any proposal for high speed rail in the Northeast Corridor.

