Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi is touting his long-shot gubernatorial candidacy’s platform supporting tolls on the interstates and this morning announced that he has a new web-based advertisement calling for electronic, barrier-free tolls.
“These tolls take traffic at regular speed, without slowing, and they could generate $1 billion a year,” Marconi said in a statement. “We pay tolls to drive through New York and Massachusetts. Why shouldn’t they pay to drive through Connecticut?” He says that the tolls would provide necessary money for transdportation expenses, possibly ignoring the fact that the General Assembly would raid the cash for operating funds; and attract business to the state. He recently called for tolls in an op-ed column in the Connecticut Post.
It can be found at: http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/How-barrier-free-tolls-can-save-Connecticut-292647.php