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[QUOTE="CTyankee, post: 2309081, member: 133"]
Well this was certainly a can of Connecticut worms...  I've lived in mid Fairfield County since the mid 70s..  Long enough to remember tolls when 95 was called the Connecticut Turnpike...  This road has always been a mess.

1.  After the tolls were eliminated all the trucks that used to use 84 from and to Boston -NYC switched to 95...  Free road and shorter...

2. Then Stamford bulldozed their downtown low rise apartments and built high rise commercial buildings to attract NYC companies, followed by Greenwich and Norwalk...   Thus was the Fairfield County traffic jam invented...

3. No help from Hartford; they were busy collecting taxes from Fairfield County (aka The Connecticut Gold Coast) and reinvesting in the roads around Hartford, along with a football stadium for the New England Patroits...  Gotta have roads there so the legislators can get to work...  And gotta have a stadium so the legislators can all use the sky boxes to watch the pro football games...

4.  Can't expand the width of the road because of the cost of the land purchases...  Now they're talking about a road use tax...

Me?  I'm moving to North Carolina...  I may not like their politics but their traffic jams are five or six cars at a traffic circle...  And the taxes and weather is for sure a lot better...
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