The Courant reports on the ongoing disaster that the I-84 construction project. The Federal Highway Administration, which financed 80% of the project, may want a refund. The State is battling with the insurance companies over who is going to pay for the repairs, estimated in the range of $17-29 million. It wasn’t that long ago that Rell was warning about the loss of federal transportation earmarks. What Rell needs to do is get a real reformer to sweep through the CT DOT and fix an agency that has been broken for years.

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