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Senate approves sweeping transportation package with safety, transit and charging-signage changes
Summary
The Connecticut Senate passed Senate Bill 1377, a broad transportation measure that updates mapping systems, expands bus-rapid-transit signal rules, raises some traffic penalties, clarifies left‑lane rules and includes targeted funding and program changes for transit and small harbors.
The Connecticut Senate on May 27 passed Senate Bill 1377, an omnibus transportation package that its sponsors described as a public‑safety and transit modernization measure.
The bill directs the Department of Transportation to adopt an updated Connecticut plain coordinate (geodetic) system to improve statewide mapping and asset management; allows the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) signal types used for light rail to be applied to bus‑rapid‑transit corridors; and clarifies that DOT may publish additional mapping systems beyond federal standards.
Sponsor Senator Christine Cohen said the measure ‘‘prioritizes safety’’ while also ‘‘expanding and enhancing public transportation’’ across Connecticut, and stressed that many sections were…
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