By Eliza Fawcett and Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant; October 16, 2019
New York City could get a little closer under a proposal by Gov. Ned Lamont to cut the Metro-North commute by as much as 15 minutes.
“Metro-North is the backbone for this state,” Lamont said in remarks to retailers Wednesday at The Bushnell in Hartford. “The fact that it takes 10, 15 minutes longer to take that train [to New York] than it did a generation ago is a real killer.’’