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.
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Without inventors, we wouldn’t really have anything but ourselves and our basic behaviors. Invention is the backbone of progress; it’s how culture evolves in the place of our now mostly superfluous biological evolution. But for all the inventions that made it into popular use, hundreds of times more failed along the way.
The whole process of invention, creation, and distribution is just one checkpoint after another one potential failure after another. It could be a faulty idea, a great idea in the wrong era, a great idea that someone else beats you to, an idea no one will sell, or an idea beat out by a competing concept. There’s no shortage of ways in which inventors can flounder, even sometimes especially the greats.