Connecticut is taking a big step toward re-energizing its construction economy, seeking nearly $1.4 billion in financing.
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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COVID-19 creates boom times for CT bike shops
Stay-at-home orders and social distancing have raised the demand for bikes just as they became scarcer than normal.
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CT can delay its transportation financing debate only a few months more
With revenues evaporating and upgrades long overdue, Connecticut will have to act soon to solve its transportation financing problems.
Posted inEconomic Development, Money, Transportation
Lamont to cancel tax relief, seek labor savings to shrink $2B deficit in July
Gov. Ned Lamont said he would cancel tax relief and seek labor savings to mitigate a big deficit in July.
Posted inTransportation
Will the coronavirus kill the state’s transit comeback?
After decades of building gleaming new highways, which enabled great mobility but eventually induced serious congestion, sprawl and pollution, Connecticut rediscovered transit. The state added or upgraded bus and rail service, with innovations such as CTFastrak and the Hartford Line, and people hopped aboard. Ridership was breaking records almost every year in the last decade […]
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Brief outbreak of tolls debate marks Bond Commission meeting
The unifying crisis of the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t enough Thursday to keep the tolls debate from briefly resurfacing.
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State sees dramatic drop in traffic as residents ‘stay safe, stay home’
The coronavirus shutdown has brought a precipitous drop in highway traffic — and a couple unanticipated benefits.
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CT maintains funds for transportation, port development, amidst pandemic
The State Bond Commission will consider $1 billion in financing next week, most involving transportation infrastructure and overdue town aid.
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Lamont defines ‘essential’ businesses that can remain in operation after Monday
Gov. Ned Lamont’s ban exempts areas like child and health care, food and safety, gun sales and package stores.
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Legislators who opposed tolls want transit spending in their districts
Lawmakers who helped block Gov. Ned Lamont’s plan to increase funding want the state to invest millions on transit improvements in their districts.
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With CT tolls debate on ice, fiscal issues loom large
Connecticut’s tolls debate may be over for now, but that lull only means Gov. Ned Lamont and legislators now must resolve a daunting list of fiscal challenges left in its wake.
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Lamont keeps pledge, begins release of stalled municipal aid
Gov. Ned Lamont kept his pledge to Connecticut municipalities Friday, beginning the process of releasing $150 million in municipal aid stalled since last summer by the debate over tolls.
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Senate Dems hedge, Lamont pulls plug on truck tolls
Gov. Ned Lamont said Wednesday after meeting with Democratic legislative leaders that tractor-trailer tolls are off the table, saying Senate Democrats could not deliver a on promised vote.
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Lamont pledges to release stalled town aid, regardless of whether tolls are approved
Gov. Ned Lamont pledged Wednesday to support borrowing for overdue municipal aid — even if legislators reject his transportation initiative and the truck tolls that would come with it.
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The tolls saga continues as Democrats postpone vote
The vote on tolls will not come before next week, the top Senate leader said Tuesday night.