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Connecticut's out of date transportation system isn't improving, despite five increases in the state’s wholesale fuel tax.
The money is being spent--just not on transportation reform. The recession in 2009 coupled with other issues have left Connecticut's transportation system in a state of limbo.
From the story: "The 2013-14 state budget appears to dedicate nearly all fuel tax receipts for transportation. But at the same time it not only canceled an important, secondary general fund subsidy for transportation, it also required transportation to shift some of its resources back to the general fund...Add up the pluses and minuses and the transportation fund received $91 million less in 2013-14 than originally promised in law."
Read the whole story at the Connecticut Mirror