Transportation finance plan could lead to breakthrough on state bonding impasse

Transportation finance plan could lead to breakthrough on state bonding impasse

An end of the deadlock could be near now that Lamont and Democratic majority leaders have united behind a truck-only tolls plan, provided House and Senate Democrats can muster enough votes to approve highway charges on commercial trucks. Legislators are eager to get a bonding bill done. Towns and cities are, too, because the holdup is delaying bond-funded state grants. State bonding also supports community, housing and economic development assistance. Under Lamont, the bond commission has approved $876.5 million in general obligation bonds this calendar year, including $301 million for school construction projects.

Transportation finance plan could lead to breakthrough on state bonding impasse

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