Opinion: Border tolls? There’s a better way

Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats.

I can think of nothing that would make car travel more fun than having to pay to leave the state and then again to get back in. Yes, border tolls are back again, and, despite public outrage, they have a better shot of actually happening in this transportation-focused year than ever before.

This would be a mistake, though maybe not for the reasons you think.

Here’s the situation: our transportation system is falling to pieces and the governor has plenty of big plans for how to fix it, but there’s not a lot of money to go around. Actually charging people to use the highways is one possible solution, and the idea of grabbing a toll from people crossing the border in and out of the state has come up several times over the past few years.

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