Malloy's Gas Tax And Toll Proposal Has Democratic Support

[George II]

3. The toll proposal calls for electronic tolls, not toll booths. Back in the 1980s there were....

...nine or ten individual toll booths on I-95 and six or seven on the Merritt Parkway. That will never happen again.

A gas tax in Connecticut will be a tax primarily on state residents. Connecticut is less than 100 miles across. If the gas tax is increased the truckers, who do the most damage to our roads, will fuel up before entering the state and make it across on barely a quarter tank of fuel. They won't stop in the state to buy fuel, eat lunch, or anything. The only way we can get revenue from out-of-staters who use our roads is through tolls.