Connecticut Nixes VMT/RUC Study Participation

The Connecticut Mirror reports, “A political football in state transportation debates for the past two years — the concept of a mileage-based tax on motorists — apparently is no longer even a subject of research at the Connecticut Department of Transportation. . . . Transportation Commissioner James Redeker wrote last week in a letter to [the I-95 Corridor Coalition] that was coordinating research into this tax that his agency was halting its involvement because of budgetary issues.”