Congress is poised to make a major investment in rail. Is it enough for CT?
CT DOT chief Joe Giulietti has an $8B must-do to-do list
Joseph J. Giulietti, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, at the office in Newington.
At a time of hype and headlines about trillions the president wants to invest in infrastructure, a railroad man with a long memory oversees the Department of Transportation in Connecticut, a state that’s been an unreliable steward of rail since the neglected New Haven Line was left to its care half a century ago.
Joseph J. Giulietti, recruited as DOT commissioner immediately after Gov. Ned Lamont’s election in 2018, started on the New Haven Line in 1971 as a 19-year-old conductor for Penn Central, then a dying railroad about to cede ownership of the line to a state unready for the responsibility.