The elimination of some federal aid for transit funding means Connecticut will be spending more on highways and less on trains and buses, according to a draft of a transportation department four-year plan. On the mass transit side, no new systems are in the works, but more than $1 billion is planned for upgrading Metro-North Railroad’s New Haven Line tracks, installing costly crash-prevention systems on Metro-North trains, and replacing part of the CT Transit bus fleet. The 2015-18 plan totaled roughly $4 billion, directing 54 percent to transit and 46 percent to highways. The proposed 2018-21 version calls for $4.5 billion, with 79 percent going to highways and 21 percent to transit.
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