Connecticut bills would take toll on road users

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Diet Coke
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Time is running out at the Connecticut statehouse on numerous bills that would charge truckers and other drivers to use roads.

With a $3.5 billion budget deficit looming over the heads of state officials, Transportation Chairman Tony Guerrera, D-Rocky Hill, has offered a bill to help eat into that gap.

Rep. Guerrera is pushing to charge tolls on certain major roadways to bolster revenues for roads. More specifically, all-electronic tolls would be charged at eight key entry points to the state: Interstates 84, 91, 95 and 395, as well as the Merritt Parkway and two each on Interstates 84 and 95, and one each on I-91, I-395, the Merritt Parkway and U.S. Route 6.

“You put up border tolls for $5 a trip, you’re talking $600 million a year in revenue. That’s $18 billion over 30 years. You can’t argue with that,” Guerrera said in a statement.

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