Connecticut
Upgrades coming for CTfastrak bus rapid transit system
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (WFSB) – Governor Ned Lamont will hold a news conference on Tuesday announcing that the Connecticut Department of Transportation is receiving a major grant from the FTA to implement upgrades to CTfastrak.
Details will be unveiled at the CTFastrak station on Main Street in New Britain at 11 a.m.
The funds are being earmarked for upgrades to CT’s bus rapid transit system, which opened in 2015 after fifteen years of planning and three years of construction.
The system is centered around an exclusive 9.4-mile-long guideway dedicated to the BRT system that links Central Connecticut communities, including Bristol, Cheshire, Hartford, New Britain, Manchester, Newington, Southington, Waterbury, and West Hartford.
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BURLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman is dead after police said she was involved in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer on Friday in Burlington.
According to Connecticut State Police, a Toyota RAV4 and Peterbuilt 386 tractor-trailer collided head-on on Route 4 near Punch Brook Road at around 4:49 p.m. on Friday.
The driver of the Toyota, identified as 64-year-old Mary Christine Ferland of Burlington, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured, according to state police. No one else was in either vehicle at the time of the crash.
The crash is still under investigation by state police, anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Brew at 860-626-7900.
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