Gov. Ned Lamont said in a speech Thursday he wanted to hammer out a deal with state legislators to support major mass-transit upgrades, but it remains unclear the extent to which his long-favored plan to install tolls on state highways would fit into that project. Improving Connecticut’s aging and congested highways and rail lines represents a cornerstone goal for the Lamont administration, which sees those undertakings as critical to jump-starting the state’s still-sluggish economy. But a bipartisan agreement has so far proved elusive, with Lamont and many Democratic state lawmakers favoring tolls to largely fund the transit projects, and Republican legislators rejecting those fees and instead wanting to tap into more borrowing to finance those initiatives.
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