The first batch of projects in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s 30-year, $100 billion transportation plan received their funding on Tuesday.
The State Bond Commission authorized $24.9 million in project funding, the first round of funding in the plan to spend billions over the next five years to begin the overhaul Connecticut’s transportation system.
Tuesday’s authorization includes:
- $10 million toward widening I-84 in Danbury
- $7 million to install real-time location devices on all public transit buses
- $4 million for a new dock yard on the Danbury Branch Rail Line in Norwalk
- $1 million to redesign the I-91, I-691 and Route 15 interchange in Meriden and Middletown
- $1 million to design the replacement for the I-84 and Route 8 interchange in Waterbury
- $500,000 to study bus service expansion
- $500,000 toward the expansion of CTfastrak from Hartford to Manchester
- $500,000 to study centralization of statewide paratransit service coordination
- $400,000 to review bus rapid transit between Norwalk and Stamford
