April 29, 2013
Modernizing Traffic Accident Reporting
by Hugh McQuaid | April 29, 2013 4:07pm
The Transportation Department and the University of Connecticut highlighted a joint effort Monday to modernize the state’s traffic accident reporting system to better inform policy-making.
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Tags: car accidents, Department of Transportation, uconn, gov. malloy, Hugh McQuaid, dh
April 26, 2013
OP-ED | Without Better Public Transit, Gas Tax is Simply Punitive
by Susan Bigelow | April 26, 2013 8:56am
Gas taxes are going up again this July, and so once again I thought, briefly, about finding some other way to get around besides driving my car. I live and work smack in the middle of a busy, densely-populated valley stretching from Northampton to New Haven, so you would think that I would have several good transit options for getting to work. You’d be wrong.
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Tags: gas tax, Taxes, transit, buses, springfield, Enfield, car tax, Susan Bigelow, dh
April 22, 2013
4 Bills Die, Advocates Continue Fight
by Megan Merrigan | April 22, 2013 5:30am
Despite the perceived momentum toward four separate bills concerning undocumented immigrants being eligible for driver’s licenses, not one of them made it past the Transportation Committee’s deadline last month.
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Tags: Juan Candelaria, Antonio Guerrera, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, drivers license, undocumented immigrants, Megan Merrigan
April 10, 2013
How Much Government Is Too Much Government?
by Hugh McQuaid | April 10, 2013 4:48pm
Something about legislation requiring the Transportation Department to develop a plan for encouraging the use of recycled asphalt must have irked House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero on Wednesday.
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Tags: transportation, recycling, Cafero, Sharkey, Hugh McQuaid, dh
March 27, 2013
Red Light Cameras, Ban On Smoking In Cars Die In Committee
by Hugh McQuaid | March 27, 2013 11:30am
Legislation allowing red light traffic cameras and banning smoking in vehicles with children will have to wait for yet another year. The Transportation Committee will hit its deadline for legislative action Wednesday and neither bill will move forward.
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Tags: Guerrera, red light cameras, smoking ban, transportation, Hugh McQuaid, dh
March 8, 2013
Yankee Fan Embraces Red Sox Charitable License Plate
by Christine Stuart | March 8, 2013 2:55pm
Like half of Connecticut residents, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is a Yankee fan. But Friday he became an honorary Red Sox fan at a press conference announcing the release of a new Red Sox license plate.
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Tags: Red Sox, yankees, license plate, Melody Currey, Sam Kennedy, Mets, Dannel P. Malloy, dh
March 4, 2013
Malloy Defends Motor Vehicle Tax Proposal
by Christine Stuart | March 4, 2013 3:54pm
“A car is a car is a car,” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday in defense of his proposal to eliminate 90 percent of municipal motor vehicle taxes.
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Tags: Ralph Eno, Council of Small Towns, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, James Finley, Betsy Gara, motor vehicle tax, John Elsesser, coventry, lyme, dh
February 26, 2013
Ridgefield First Selectman Continues Fight For Tolls
by Christine Stuart | February 26, 2013 6:30am
He may not have won his party’s nomination for governor back in 2010, but Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi isn’t giving up on the idea of bringing back highway tolls.
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Tags: Rudy Marconi, tolls, Ridgefield, Antonio Guerrera, lockbox, highways, booth, strategy, gas tax, congestion pricing, dh
February 25, 2013
Lawmaker Gives Red Light Cameras A 50/50 Chance
by Hugh McQuaid | February 25, 2013 9:42pm
After an all-day hearing Monday on a bill that would allow cities to install traffic enforcement cameras at stop lights, the co-chairman of the Transportation Committee gave the bill “no better than 50/50” chances of passing this year.
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Tags: red light cameras, Angel Arce, Antonio Guerrera, Andrew Maynard, Hugh McQuaid, dh
February 20, 2013
Smoking Ban For Vehicles Carrying Kids Finds Support From Mansfield Youth
by Christine Stuart | February 20, 2013 3:00pm
Heather Abdullah and Aden Abbatemarco of Mansfield told the Transportation Committee on Wednesday that if they were lawmakers for a day, they would approve legislation to ban smoking in vehicles carrying children.
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