A tale of two States, both with high taxes and meddlesome legislatures yet one fixes and builds its transportation infrastructure quickly, the other doesn't. When the Northridge earthquake destroyed portions of Los Angeles freeways it took a year to repair. When the bridges tying Oakland to San Francisco where damaged in an earthquake one was completely replaced and the others repaired in about a year. On the other hand putting in extra lanes on I 95 between Stamford and Norwalk Connecticut took eleven (2007 through 2017, yes eleven count them) years. Time is money! When Connecticut's Department of Transportation is criticized for being nine times more costly than others, its because of this example.
Its early but our new Governor of Connecticut has already picked the Lying Ned honorific. He waffled on tolls while campaigning which he now makes clear were always his intention. Better for him to have had courage declare for highway tolls and openly talk about the need to restructure the clearly dysfunctional DOT that spends the money to be collected. Ned's legacy will be after spending his personal fortune to become Governor as the clown facing the tsunami crashing over Connecticut.
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