M. Jodi Rell
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M. Jodi Rell Rell
M. Jodi Rell's proposed budget, a few years from now the Windsor Locks station would become a critical business hub linking the airport to a new commuter rail line running on the existing Amtrak route from New Haven to Hartford to Springfield. A scaled down version of that proposal by Mrs. Rell, a Republican, would cost just $162 million, with $16 million coming from the federal government. Mrs. Rell's plan follows a $1.3 billion measure she pushed through the legislature last year that added 342 new cars to the Metro-North New Haven Line, spent $300 million for a new rail maintenance facility for that line and paid for improvements to some interstate highways.