&quot;Our tax dollars disappear to Hartford while we in Fairfield County are left with Soviet-style transport. The trains are a mess and the Merritt is a diabolical drive in bad weather as the drainage is hopelessly screwed up and needs fixing now.&quot;

If you live in CT and work in NY, then you pay your taxes to Albany, not Hartford.  NY state does not reciprocate taxes with CT.  So maybe NY State should pay a bigger chunk of the Metro North shortfall (i.e., the difference between operating the system versus the collected fares), since it&#039;s mostly a system to move CT residents to NY state.