"We are already late. We are behind the eight ball as I speak today," said Rep. Tony Guerrera, the longtime transportation committee co-chairman who is among the legislature's most passionate proponents of tolls. "Everyone else can travel through the roads in Connecticut and not pay a dime. What's wrong with this picture? ... Are we going to keep kicking the can down the road? This is the time that we have to address it. That's what our job is."