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In the annals of Connecticut’s legislative brawls, this one has the makings of tolls 2.0. The new transportation effort that is grazing the guardrails is the Transportation and Climate Initiative, TCI. It’s a climate change-combatting concept that seeks to replicate through the motor vehicle sector what the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) accomplished through the electric power sector — cutting greenhouse gases and other emissions while raising money to cycle funds back into related climate-change programs. In the case of TCI, it could also cycle funds into the state’s dwind...

Share this article Share this article HARTFORD, Conn., April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its ongoing commitment to help connect low-income families to the internet so they can fully participate in educational opportunities and the digital economy, Comcast today announced plans to equip 25 different Connecticut locations – 13 of which are now open with plans for 12 additional sites. A Comcast NBCUniversal Lift Zone Working with its network of nonprofit partners, Comcast "Lift Zones" feature free WiFi, which allows students to work on laptops simultaneously so they can successfully pa...

“Slow down, don’t drive intoxicated and put your phone down. These are things we can all do and respect life and not cause carnage in how we get from point A to point B,” Tony Cherolis said.  That’s why Cherolis, the Transport Hartford coordinator at the Center for Latino Progress in Hartford, supports the road safety bill the legislature is expected to debate in 2021.  According to Real Hartford blogger Kerri Provost, who has been mapping pedestrian fatalities across the state, at least 52 pedestrians and six cyclists have died after being struck by vehicles in the state this year ...