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Revised Connecticut Budget Cuts Metro-North Fare Hikes, Saves Highway Tolls Revised Connecticut Budget Cuts Metro-North Fare Hikes, Saves Highway Tolls
Revised Connecticut Budget Cuts Metro-North Fare Hikes, Saves Highway Tolls Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday, Feb. 5 proposed these adjustments to the state budget that restore $4.3 billion in planned transportation projects, cancel proposed Metro-North fare hikes and add electronic tolls on state highways.  Malloy's proposed changes to the two-year state budget also eliminates the $200 personal property tax exemption, creates a new 25-cent deposit on wine and spirit bottles and eliminates education cost sharing for the 33 wealthiest communities, as reported here by the Greenwich Times.  Malloy released his Fiscal Year 2019 budget adjustments, building on the framew…

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by Jon Craig