WESTPORT – The state’s Port Authority will help lead an effort to find opportunities to shift freight traffic off the busy I-95 corridor using the state’s ports and railroads. “The goal of the working group is to look at policy changes in the state of Connecticut or incentives that could be applied to improve the use of freight rail, the sea lanes, and our ports to move freight around Connecticut to alleviate some of the traffic on I-95 coming out of New York, and to make our roadways less impacted by freight traffic, and to manage municipal solid waste better,” Port Authority Executive Director Michael O’Connor explained at a board meeting held at the Westport Library on Tuesday. The effort was prompted by the transportation omnibus SB-416: An Act Concerning Transportation System Modernization. The group will include members of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Department of Economic and Community Development and Department of Transportation, said O’Connor. O’Connor said that he is looking for other agencies or organizations to invite into the group. “I’m interested in other working partners that have some ideas about what policy changes would be beneficial and where we can maximize the legislative actions that would need to take place in January to help out this part of the industry,” he said.

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