A plan to bring a high speed ferry to Fairfield County, with service out of Stamford and Bridgeport to lower Manhattan, is being resurrected by Gov. Ned Lamont for his yet-to-be-released transportation plan. The idea has been studied, considered, planned and dropped multiple times since at least 2002, and as a result, much of the work and resources for nearly everything needed to bring ferry service from Connecticut to New York City — including up to $15 million previously earmarked by the Federal Highway Administration specifically for such a project — has already been done or is in place.
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