Many of our younger citizens may not be aware that Connecticut used to have highway tolls that contributed to the upkeep of our infrastructure. The reason the State did away with them had absolutely nothing to do with money. It happened in the 1980s after a tractor trailer plowed through a toll booth plaza, ending in a fiery multi-car crash. The knee-jerk reaction from legislators and citizens was that the toll plazas were unsafe, and so they were torn down and Connecticut became a free drive-through state.