Connecticut

If it's going to be cut anywhere...it needs to be in roads...which is where it is least likely to be cut. CT has an opportunity to be a national leader on public transit and transit-integrated "smart-growth" development; we need to take it. It will revitalize this state and attract businesses along with next-generation and future-technologies workers to the state.

Our insurance industry is drying up and moving out of state. So is our financial industry. Defense jobs have been fleeing CT for the "right-to-work" (for less) South for 30 years. We need to attract new industries and employers to CT. Transit will do that. Hell, making a major transit commitment might attract mass transit manufacturers to CT...we have the workforce (from EB, UTC and others) and our location is prime for it because of our central location to the metropolitan Eastern Seaboard. (Sorry, IL, OH, MI...we can and should "steal" your mass-transit manufacturing industry.)