Two ranking state Republican leaders have called on the eastern Connecticut congressional delegation for federal support to help defray the state portion
Invest in rail freight, reduce the number of trucks on the highways
How would you like a plan to remove thousands of trucks from Connecticut highways, clean up the air and create new jobs?
Who wouldn’t? It’s a win-win-win plan that you’d expect Gov. Ned Lamont to embrace, especially in this time of the Transportation Climate Initiative.
Jim Cameron
The solution? Invest in our state’s freight railroads.
Yes, there are still freight trains in Connecticut, just not very many. But there could be more.
In its earlier days as a profitable, private railroad the New Haven ran hundreds of freight trains each day. But today the railroad is too crowded with (relatively faster) passenger trains and the bridges and catenary lines are too low for modern double-stack container trains.
Published May 02. 2021 12:01AM
We share state Sen. Paul Formica’s frustration over the growing price tag of the State Pier’s redevelopment plan and the “so what?” attitude of the Connecticut Port Authority and the Lamont administration. I can t tell you how offended I am at the total mismanagement of the project, Formica said at a recent meeting of the port authority board. You should all resign if you can t get this right.
The Republican’s 20th Senatorial District includes New London and its port.
Like this editorial board, Formica sees the value in the project’s concept. Use a combination of private and state funds to upgrade the long underperforming port; the incentive for that private investment being utilization as a staging area for large-scale offshore wind-power development.
Posted on April 30th, 2021
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA
The Shameless
Jabbering Bandits (SJB) have accused the government of attempting to impose
civil disabilities on key opposition leaders on the recommendations of the
Special Presidential Commission on Political Victimization, saying that riot is
tantamount to over-riding the judiciary and therefore unconstitutional.
The Special
Commission had indicted 22 political leaders and individuals associated with
the previous government (many of them top leaders of the SJB now) for the
violation of the Constitution in establishing or being part of the
Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) and the Anti-Corruption Committee Secretariat
(ACCS).
Among the
indicted are former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, former Ministers
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