An Editorial From The Day; July 15, 2018
If anything is holding Connecticut back as badly as having to pay for unfunded pension obligations, it’s transportation. Just say “I-95” or “I-91” and watch people wince.
Commuter rail does its best work where there’s large-scale employment in a concentrated area that is not home to all the skilled workers needed by the various industries and businesses. The immediate popularity of the newly opened New Haven-Springfield commuter rail shows what happens when people gain options for where those in their households can live and still get to work in a reasonable time. Middletown and other Connecticut River Valley towns may even be on the cusp of growth as bedroom communities for couples who say goodbye in the morning and entrain north to Hartford or Windsor Locks or south to New Haven and the shoreline.
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