The gas tax is at the core of the tolls debate. Climate change is at the core of the gas tax. But switching to electric vehicles will mean less gas tax revenue.
Tolls
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Lamont: Private investors could fund toll start-up costs
Gov. Ned Lamont wants to explore tapping private investors to finance at least some of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to install electronic tolling on its highways.
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Some details on tolls, but little common ground
The tolls proposal instantly divided the legislature along partisan lines three weeks ago and became an early wedge issue in the 2020 elections.
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On tolls, Lamont may be helping the next governor
Gov. Ned Lamont’s campaign for electronic highway tolls already marks him as a rarity in U.S. politics: A newly elected official expending enormous political capital today on an idea that would yield limited benefits, if any, until he leaves office.
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GOP, McCaw spar over tolls, tax hikes in Lamont budget
Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget director, Melissa McCaw ran the gantlet Wednesday as she discussed tolls and taxes with the legislature’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee.
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DOT wary Lamont’s transportation plan is too lean
Gov. Ned Lamont hasn’t said which planned highway, bridge or rail projects can’t begin over the next four years under his budget proposal — and transportation officials already have expressed their concerns.
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Feds call Connecticut’s statewide tolls proposal ‘new territory’
No state has attempted what Connecticut is now promoting: A plan to install toll on existing highways throughout the state, as opposed to a single road, bridge or tunnel.
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Lamont on tolls: ‘If you have any better ideas, bring them’
Gov. Ned Lamont offered no hard-sell Thursday for his “option” of tolls, demurring when asked if he was pressing legislators for their support. He said he wants them at the table.
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Lamont wants to take a big-table approach to state budget
Gov. Lamont is using his first budget to start a conversation, rather than drive specific solutions, about a host of key issues ranging from tolls and sports betting to recreational marijuana and labor cost-savings.
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Lamont budget takes the first step toward tolls
Gov. Ned Lamont used his first budget Wednesday to lay the groundwork for the restoration of tolls to Connecticut highways.
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Lamont administration struggles, admits ‘room for improvement’
With no strategy to defend his tolls proposal, Gov. Ned Lamont ceded three days of news cycles to a rapidly mobilized opposition of Republicans, the trucking industry and small businesses.
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Will Lamont keep transportation system afloat until toll receipts arrive?
Timing is everything. The governor wants to use tolls to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure in a few years at the same time he plans to cut borrowing now.
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A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
At least that’s what Gov. Lamont hopes as he prepares to offset tolls and sin taxes with lower property taxes on cars and other budget sweeteners.
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Lamont reverses himself, will offer plan to toll cars and trucks
Tolls on trucks alone will not produce enough revenue to improve Connecticut’s transportation network, he says.
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CT pot legalization could include expungement of criminal records
Senate Democrats unveiled a slew of proposals Wednesday that would not only legalize and tax the sale of marijuana for recreational use, but also expunge certain criminal records involving marijuana-related offenses.