Funds to Fix Connecticut's Roads, Bridges Drying Up : CEG
Tue January 19, 2021 - Northeast Edition The CT Mirror Construction and maintenance spending on Connecticut’s highways has decreased. While the coronavirus dominated summer headlines, Connecticut's five-year effort to accelerate the transportation rebuilding program slowed to a stroll on July 1. A risky initiative to force tolls — by borrowing and spending billions of extra dollars on new projects between 2016 and 2020 — concluded on that date, without those fees or any other plan to pay for all of it. Now the state is left with a $2.8 billion bill, a cash-starved Special Transportatio...