HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The price tag has come in for the Governor’s massive, 30-year transportation rebuild and it’s a whopper. We’ve always known it would cost about $100-billion, but now we know how much it could cost you.

GE said earlier this week, that one of the reasons they’re moving to Boston, is better transportation infrastructure. After 6 months of study, Gov. Malloy‘s ‘Transportation Finance Advisory Panel’ has made its recommendations on how you will pick up the tab for a better transportation infrastructure in Connecticut.

“It is undeniable that there are an enormous number of projects that have to be done…the question really is…how do you pay for it?,” said panel chairman Cameron Staples, a former lawmaker from New Haven.

The answer is to ask Connecticut motorists to dig deeper into their pockets, deeper and deeper over a seven year period for an eventual 56 percent hike in the state ‘Gas Tax.’ Moving it up in 2 cent hikes over a seven year period, to bring it from the current 25 cents a gallon, to 39 cents a gallon.Related Content: Malloy says public willing to pay $100 billion transportation bill

And that’s not all; the panel also recommends a half a penny increase in the ‘State Sales Tax’ bringing it up from the current 6.35 percent to 6.85 percent. And adding ‘Electronic Tolls’ that would average 10 cents per mile, but would be adjusted up and down according to the time of day with the highest fee during peak traffic times in the morning and afternoon.

“If we’re not going to raise the additional money, bridges are going to fall down…that’s the reality,” said Gov. Malloy after thanking the panel members for their work.

The Governor says he will not propose this to the legislature until they pass a ‘Constitutional Amendment’ and place it on the ballot this fall for voters that says all new taxes must be used for transportation and nothing else.

State lawmakers would not have to actually vote on these tax hikes until after this fall’s election with goal of having them start in 2018.Related Content: Hiking ‘gas tax’ not political suicide

The head of the state’s largest business organization, which has generally endorsed the Governor’s transportation initiative was not ready for this. Connecticut Business & Industry Association President Joe Brennan saying, “We need to have a lot of discussions with our members, our board of directors and others to determine the best way to move forward.”

But Republican State Rep. Gail Lavielle (R-Wilton) was saying, “Tolling that would be focused primarily on the I-95 corridor, I don’t think that is going to meet with a favorable reception from residents in Southwestern Connecticut.”

Republican lawmakers also say that residents will resist the Gas Tax hike too because there’s already been too many tax hikes. Republicans support the transportation rebuild but say it can be done with the existing tax structure by prioritizing the state’s borrowing better. The Malloy administration says that won’t work that there wouldn’t be enough money to go around for other important things like school construction.