A legislative panel weighed implementing tolls and increasing the sales tax as a way to fund future investments in the state’s transportation infrastructure Friday at a forum sponsored by the CT Fund for the Environment.

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Gubernatorial aide Kip Bergstrom is ready to tell other states, “We will steal your scientists”—but he wants high-speed trains to help him do it.

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A freshman senator from Meriden says he’s going to introduce legislation to cap the state’s gross receipts tax on gasoline.

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NEW BRITAIN—The state’s New Britain to Hartford rapid bus route project took a step towards becoming a reality Monday morning, when a Federal Transit administrator formally announced that the agency had approved a $275 million full funding grant agreement.

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State automotive leaders are celebrating a re-energized industry this weekend at the Connecticut International Auto Show, set for Friday through Sunday at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy plans to open the show Friday, joined by Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Melody Curry and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel Esty. The show features some of the newest models of hybrid, luxury, family, and specialty cars. 

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Services won’t be cut, but Connecticut commuters will see the first in a series of fare hikes Jan. 1 that will increase fares by more than 12 percent over the next three years under a plan announced Friday by the Department of Transportation.

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Starting Oct. 3, Connecticut residents looking to renew their drivers license will be asked whether they simply want to renew it, or if they want to take the extra step of verifying their identity to get a gold starred license that will make it easier for them to board flights or get into federal buildings.

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The Connecticut Police Chiefs Association and the Alzheimer’s Association announced Wednesday that they’ve developed training for police officers to help them recognize the disease during traffic stops, in the community, and when locating individuals who may have wandered away from their home.

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Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks, Bridgeport made its summer marine police unit a year-round effort to protect the port, where oil, coal, bananas and pineapples arrived on ships from Colombia, Costa Rica and Indonesia.

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NEW BRITAIN—Sen. Joseph Markley, R-Southington, questioned the environmental soundness of a $569 million, 9.4 mile rapid transit bus route project from New Britain to Hartford Wednesday night at a public hearing he requested regarding the plan’s inland wetlands permit.

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