HARTFORD, Conn. — Former Metro-North Railroad president Joseph J. Giulietti will become Connecticut’s commissioner of transportation, governor-elect Ned Lamont has announced.
The Hartford Courant reports that Lamont said he is looking to the commissioner to implement the governor-elect’s vision of “substationally reducing travel time from New Haven and our other towns to New York City.”
Giulietti said he looks forward to working in a state “ripe for rail enhancements and upgrades on its Metro-North lines, as well as the expansion of its newly launched CTRail line.”
It will be nice to have a DOT commissioner who is not so highway-centric!