[BPt111]

CT split on rail overhaul; Malloy says repairs should come first | The CT Mirror

[BeyondtheHorizon]

Saturday 11AM brutal traffic. 128 in boston no traffic. Even long island has very little traffic. NJ very little as well.

[BPt111]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheHorizon

Saturday 11AM brutal traffic. 128 in boston no traffic. Even long island has very little traffic. NJ very little as well.

Brutal traffic still on 95 in FFC, Slow Downs in New Haven 95 and Waterbury 84, 2 mile before Hartford. Boston traffic is brutal also, NYC is worst.

[BeyondtheHorizon]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Brutal traffic still on 95 in FFC, Slow Downs in New Haven 95 and Waterbury 84, 2 mile before Hartford. Boston traffic is brutal also, NYC is worst.

NYC isn't really meant for cars so it always has traffic. There's 15 million people driving onto an island! I've always said they should have a 25 dollar toll each way to enter manhattan and go below 125th st. with a car. It's been talked about before. It would allow the GW and other outer area bridges to lower their tolls for people driving by nyc and would reduce congestion in the city and outer boroughs. Everything comes by truck. People and goods need to get BY nyc to points on LI, NJ, CT where cars are needed. Transportation in that area should revolve around getting cars around manhattan and having people using mass transit in manhattan.

95 in CT really is one of the worst sections of highway in the country. It's jammed from greenwich to new london at 1:50 on a saturday. Totally and utterly insane. Nearly 100 mile delay with very little green and mostly red/yellow.

[RunD1987]

I was driving through NY. Think CT really needs to do tolls for bridges and at State lines. Do away with income tax and lower the gas tax by 25 cents.

[DigitalMilford]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Brutal traffic still on 95 in FFC, Slow Downs in New Haven 95 and Waterbury 84, 2 mile before Hartford. Boston traffic is brutal also, NYC is worst.

I used to live off of the Sunrise Highway on Long Island-- Personally, I found traffic on LI to be worse than the 95 corridor of CT. Could have been the patterns I traveled, but, even the suburban traffic in Long Island was awful.

[HumpDay]

Originally Posted by RunD1987

I was driving through NY. Think CT really needs to do tolls for bridges and at State lines. Do away with income tax and lower the gas tax by 25 cents.

Income tax brings in roughly $9 billion dollars a year. Getting rid of that would be a disaster. Our state budget is roughly $20 billion so nearly half of the budget will be whipped out. Not going to happen.

As for tolls, the FHA is not going to allow them to be built on state lines. We did have tolls on Route 291 (now known as Interstate 291) and for many years there was a toll on the Charter Oak Bridge before they replaced that bridge back in the early 90's. If tolls were to be brought back i would prefer them on Interstate 95 in Darien and Stonington, Interstate 91 in East Windsor before you cross the CT River, Interstate 84 in Union and Newtown. Instead of the mileage tax I would much rather prefer highway tolls. If I was the governor right now I would lower the income tax brackets back to pre-Malloy era, legalize pot and tax it, elimate the business entity tax, and create tolls where out of state drivers will pay $8 with trucks set at $5. Any violators which fail to pay the toll will be stopped by the newly created Connecticut Toll Police and given a citation. Not sure if that would be allowed but if I was the governor I will make it a pain in the a** for out of state drivers since they are the reason why our traffic is getting worse.

[RunD1987]

They need to do away with a tax of they do a toll or mileage tax. At that point CT will probably be the highest taxed State.

[BPt111]

Study Says Millennials And Better Transportation Critical For Economy - Courant Community

[Mr_250]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Study Says Millennials And Better Transportation Critical For Economy - Courant Community

I read this is morning and was going to mention it in the economic thread. Everyone is aware that transportation and millennials go hand in hand, but it's what they said in about the third paragraph that got my attention.

I'm paraphrasing but the article said that in the metro Hartford area we lost about 40 percent of college grads to out of state. Ok, but they said that metro Hartford is being flooded by people who are unskilled and low wage earners. It also stated that a majority of workers in the Hartford area will not be able to support a family based on the current wages. That to me is scary. Essentially we are losing high wage jobs and replacing them with low wage. This has been shown for some time now.