Connecticut’s urban interstates have the third-highest rate of vehicle travel per lane mile and are the eighth most congested with 60 percent of urban interstates experiencing congestion during peak hours.

If singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane were writing about his life as a Connecticut highway, he probably would not advocate driving it. Indeed, for those who frequent the highways and byways of Connecticut as lawyers often do, it does not take a person with an engineering background to appreciate that our infrastructure is either failing or well past its useful life.