Some of the last federal transportation dollars to be distributed by the administration of President Joe Biden are going to Connecticut to expand rail service in the corridor from New Haven to Hartford and Springfield. State and federal officials announced the $11.6 million in funding Monday at Union Station in Hartford, one of the stops on the CTrail Hartford Line service that launched in 2018 and has grown to 750,000 annual passenger trips. The federal grant will be matched by about $13.4 million in state funding. One of the busiest commuter lines in the U.S. is Metro-North, which connects Fairfield County to New York City. Maintenance backlogs and outdated bridges have forced lower speeds on rails used by Metro-North and Amtrak. “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,” said Garrett Eucalitto, the state commissioner of transportation.
The last money train out of D.C. under Biden has $11.6M for CT