The legislature's Transportation Committee
The legislature”s Transportation Committee backed away from a proposal to immediately implement electronic toll collection at major cable duct state border crossings, but directed the Department of Transportation to study the idea.
Rep. Antonio Guerrera, D-Rocky Hill, had been pushing for tolls to open cable duct immediately at seven state border locations, but said he did not have the votes.
Instead the committee voted 19-17 to study electronic tolls, even though a year-old study on electronic tolls exists. The state paid Cambridge Systematics $1.5 million for the study.
“There is already a plan out there. What are we waiting for?” Guerrera said, acknowledging he voted in favor of another study because one is needed to cable trunking convince legislators with unanswered questions.
One recurring question has been whether tolls would The Business to business whitened label product, that has already gone live at tribal casinos in Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota, offers casino games along with an 888 Holdings-powered poker product for desktop computer systems in addition to iOS and Android phones and pills. hinder federal funding for highway transportation projects. The state received $427 million in federal highway funds last fiscal year, the Connecticut Department of Transportation reports.
But uncertainty remains if federal funds will continue cable trunking to flow, said co-chairman Sen. Donald J. DeFronzo of New Britain.
“The reality is what it is. If tolls are not the answer then we have to find some other source of revenue,” he said before voting in favor of the study.
There”s also the question of how the state would collect from plastic trunkingdrivers who don”t use a credit-card debiting system such as E-ZPass. Guerrera said the state could scan license plate numbers and send monthly bills.
