Jen Talks with Fred Camillo
Channel: Time To Talk
Date: 28/02/2018

Good morning Greenwich it's on Wednesday and that means it's time to talk with me Jen Graziano I'm the co-owner of Cox and Graziano funeral home located at 134 Hamilton Avenue and as part of my family's commitment to the community I come to you every Wednesday talking to people that matter about things that matter in the place that matters right here in Greenwich.

So quite appropriate today that we're gonna be talking about the new proposed toll that they want to send down from Hartford right here to the Greenwich New York border and my guest is stuck in traffic. Representative Fred Camillo who will be calling in momentarily. Fred is gonna talk to us about the proposed toll the proposed gas tax and so many things going up going on in Hartford that impact us on the local level. 

Welcome to all of our Facebook live viewers this morning thank you for tuning in, Fred will take any questions and comments directly to the studio. Just give you a little background for those who might not be aware there is a new proposed toll, that will be going by the New York Connecticut border somewhere around exit 2. As you can imagine lots of uproar about that will it only be on i-95 no it will not in kind of a statewide toll thing but at the very immediate local level that's where it's impacting us so people from both sides of New York and the Connecticut side are rightfully so the Merritt Parkway that as well you know I didn't read about in a Merritt Parkway, That would be all you know they have a new way of doing it now though no and no one got that memo and my brother reminded me the other day that that was the whole reason why we got rid of the tolls in the first place was because of the huge accident that happened at the Milford stop I think a truck ran into a bunch of cars how long ago back when we got rid of the the tolls Wow that was really the impetus for it.  Nobody liked the tolls. but you know I think the argument always is. if you see the money going back into the infrastructure and you see visible improvements on your roadways then anybody would be happy to comply. You don't see the results. You now think of many roadways go over to New York the Long Island Expressway I think it's been a work in progress for I don't know how many years now and now they want to build that tunnel but the toll that is proposed there's a lot of discrepancy on both sides of the aisle Governor Malloy have placed an indefinite hold on it for a while as the special transportation fund in the state was going into the red and it would be impossible to sell bonds and fund and finance the project and construction trade unions were afraid this is going to cause an outward migration of construction workers into other states there was a lot of back-and-forth and I know Fred Camillo was at a rally the other day that I saw on Facebook that he's really advocating the stopping of this plan so we want to hear from him some local residents from Greenwich