Issue No. 8

September 7, 2026

Accountability watch

Bridgeport's Barnum Station: $10M TIGER grant rescinded after costs hit $300M

A new Metro-North station was budgeted at $48 million in 2014. By the time Connecticut deferred the project, the price tag had grown to $300 million — and the federal government had already taken its grant back.

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