{"id":691901,"date":"2010-03-15T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.73846"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:17:44","slug":"bill-on-electronic-tolls-gets-new-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/691901","title":{"rendered":"Bill On Electronic Tolls Gets New Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature&#8217;s transportation committee modified a controversial bill that would install electronic tolls at state borders. Now, the bill only calls for the Department of Transportation and other state and federal agencies to develop a plan for operating electronic tolls at Connecticut&#8217;s borders. <\/p>\n<p>The plan would be submitted to the transportation committee by January 12 ,2011.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the major changes to the bill, several committee members were reluctant to support the measure Monday, saying that they do not want tolls in the state. <\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the bill said the committee needs to find new revenue it can use to pay for expensive transportation projects. <\/p>\n<p>The transportation committee passed the bill 19-17 Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature&#8217;s transportation committee modified a controversial bill that would install electronic tolls at state borders. Now, the bill only calls for the Department of Transportation and other state and federal agencies to develop a plan for operating electronic tolls at Connecticut&#8217;s borders. The plan would be submitted to the transportation committee by January 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TZH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}