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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2317659, member: 6911"] Connecticut is the only state on the East Coast that doesn't collect tolls on its interstate roads. And that is a critical reason why our roads and bridges are in such a poor state of repair: we don't have toll revenues to pay for their repair and upkeep. While Nutmeggers would be taxed, we would also bring in an estimated third of a billion dollars a year from out-of-state drivers and trucks using our roads now for free- and contributing to their degradation by overuse. Might be interested to know that there are more residents of New York using Metro North to come into Greenwich and other Fairfield County financial centers, than there are Fairfield County residents using mass transit to go into New York City. So Metro North benefits Connecticut by bringing in labor from outside. [/QUOTE]