Grants announced Monday include $11.6 million to increase weekday round-trip service to and from Union Station in downtown Hartford, including more stops in a renovated Windsor Locks station and $2.4 million to study street-level train crossings along the Danbury Branch line that links Norwalk to Danbury. Eucalitto said the added trains will make it easier for commuters to plan, particularly on the Hartford line, which had record ridership in 2024. “We are a rail state, probably more than any other state in the country and we continue to rely on passenger rail to make our economy move,” he said. Mark Boughton, the state commissioner of Revenue Services who has been designated by Lamont as a transportation czar, said that when the federal infrastructure law was first enacted, the state estimated about $6 billion in federal support. As Biden leaves next week, Connecticut has received $9.6 billion in support in a variety of areas, including public health, he said. Under Eucalitto, 200 state bridges have been replaced under the program.
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