Connecticut Senator Pushes To Repair Highway, Railroad Infrastructure
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) - More and more Connecticut lawmakers are convinced that funds must be set aside strictly for repairing highway and railroad infrastructure.
As WCBS 880's Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau reported, Republican lawmakers in Hartford have been pushing for a way to segregate transportation funds for years since too many times the funds have been raided.
Sen. Scott Frantz, of Greenwich, is a leading advocate of protecting the hundreds of millions of dollars, which he believes should have been set aside since the Mianus Bridge collapse in 1983.
"It's about time that we really started to focus on funding our infrastructure, which is continuing to age rapidly here because we're at the tail-end of the useful life of many of these bridges," he said.
Sen. Frantz said we are well past the useful life of I-95.
He is in favor of a constitutional amendment as a means of guarding the funds, but is not for the idea of tolls as a way to raise money.