These are the hard facts: Our state needs more and better jobs, but we cannot get them without improving our transportation infrastructure. (The latest Beacon Hill competitiveness survey rates Connecticut as 50th in infrastructure among the states.) If Connecticut is to prosper again, if we are to be an attractive place for businesses to locate and grow, we must reduce highway congestion, replace our bridges before any more fall down and improve rail access to New York City and its many jobs. The other options for transportation finance aren’t viable anymore. There is simply no sensible way around tolls. The discussion in the legislature needs to move from “whether” to “how.”