Congress is poised to make a major investment in rail. Is it enough for CT?
CT DOT chief Joe Giulietti has an $8B must-do to-do list
Joseph J. Giulietti, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, at the office in Newington.
At a time of hype and headlines about trillions the president wants to invest in infrastructure, a railroad man with a long memory oversees the Department of Transportation in Connecticut, a state that’s been an unreliable steward of rail since the neglected New Haven Line was left to its care half a century ago.
Joseph J. Giulietti, recruited as DOT commissioner immediately after Gov. Ned Lamont’s election in 2018, started on the New Haven Line in 1971 as a 19-year-old conductor for Penn Central, then a dying railroad about to cede ownership of the line to a state unready for the responsibility.
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Hartford Line returns to full train service, with officials optimistic that more riders will take to the rails as pandemic wanes
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Updated: 10:26 PM EDT July 25, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. The CTrail Hartford Line will return to full service on Monday, July 26. Seven round trips that were eliminated in March, 2020 due to the pandemic will return to the schedule to allow for more travel options between New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield, according to CTrail.
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) also says that seven additional trains will be added to the Shore Line East schedule. Four Shore Line East trains will be extended from Old Saybrook to New London to allow for more travel options.
Last week, Amtrak added additional service on the Northeast Corridor between Boston and New York.