Where We Live: Rail, Bike and Car

After stories about missed opportunities at federal transit funding, and a scandal that’s forced the head of the state DOT out the door, Connecticut seems to be bobbling its chance to regain a historic position as a hub of transportation. 

The state was a pioneer in the field – canals, railroads, bicycles, cars, airplanes, even the superhighway.

But now those highways are clogged with trucks and cars, our trains are too old and too slow, and people have moved out of the cities into the cuburbs. 

So how do we get our state to be a transportation pioneer again? 

Author and historian Steve Goddard joins us in studio.