The Department of Transportation expects to lose key employees soon, and CT has had persistent problems funding its transportation needs.
Transportation
Stories about traveling into, out of, or around Connecticut via Metro North and other trains, Tweed and Bradley airports, state highways and more.
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Tweed-Florida flights planned; Decision delayed on $5M airport renovation
Tweed New Haven Airport unveiled plans to add parking and renovate existing buildings into separate spaces for departures and arrivals.
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Congress is poised to make a major investment in rail. Is it enough for CT?
The coalition behind the bipartisan infrastructure bill is fragile, and the money it promises rail is both historic and inadequate.
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Photos: Scenes around Hartford’s Union Station
On a pleasant summer day, people and vehicles are on the move around Hartford’s Union Station.
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Though larger mileage tax is coming, truckers get a small break on diesel fuel levy
Connecticut’s diesel fuel tax has fallen to its lowest level since 2010.
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Lamont’s transit reboot: Faster trains next year — and 2035
Connecticut is promising billions in improvements to the New Haven Line, the busiest and pokiest commuter rail corridor in America.
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It looks like CT’s Transportation Climate Initiative bill is dead. Now what?
The legislature’s failure to pass TCI could test the state’s leadership role in battling climate change.
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Legislature passes highway usage tax on large commercial trucks
The legislature approved a new usage tax on large commercial trucks to bolster Connecticut’s rebuild of its transportation network.
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Infrastructure overhaul should focus more on safety, advocates say
Despite the pandemic, traffic fatalities are up 5% in 2020.
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Is it a plan to fight climate change, or a gas tax? The TCI is facing fierce pushback
Connecticut is one of 14 jurisdictions signed on to the Transportation and Climate Initiative.
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Tweed New Haven airport announces $70 million expansion
The $70 million privately funded expansion will include a new four-gate, 74,000 square-foot terminal and daily service from a new airline.
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Opposed by GOP, Lamont campaigns for climate initiative
In promoting the Transportation and Climate Initiative, Lamont is working to succeed where he failed two years ago on tolls.
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Lamont’s budget keeps transportation program afloat through 2026 with new truck fee
Gov. Ned Lamont’s new budget would keep Connecticut’s transportation program solvent through 2026 with a new fee on trucks.
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It has been slow to arrive, but high speed rail could be coming
A high-speed rail concept has been germinating, one that would go inland through Connecticut instead of along the shoreline.
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Funding to fix CT’s roads and bridges is drying up, and officials don’t have a solution
Connecticut’s transportation building program is on a financial diet after a five-year ramp-up after lawmakers rejected tolls.