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Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies
Department of Transportation
Agency Web page |
Statutory Authority |Agency History |
Published histories/articles |
State Library Collections | List of
Commissioners
Statutory Authority
:
CGS P.A. 69-768, CGS Sec. 13b-3, 13b-2(i)
1969, Dept of Transportation established per P.A. 768, sec. 3. Created from merger of four agencies :
Connecticut State Highway Department, (became Bureau of Highways)
Department of Aeronautics,(became Bureau of Aeronautics)
Connecticut Transportation Authority, (incorporated into the new Bureau of Rail and Motor Carrier Services)
Commissioners of Steamship Terminals, (became Bureau of Waterways)
Published Histories/Articles :
Connecticut. State Highway Dept. Forty Years of Highway Development in Connecticut, 1895-1935. New Haven : published for the Tercentenary Commission by Yale University Press, 1935. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc T271h p v.4. nos. 47-60]
Connecticut. State Highway Dept. Fifty years of State Highways in Connecticut. Hartford : Highway Commissioners Office, 1945. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc H533f ]
Connecticut. Bureau of Roadside Development. Seven Years Along Connecticut Highways, 1927-1934 : The Story of the Operation of the Bureau of Roadside Development of the Connecticut Highway Department. Hartford : State Highway Dept., 1934. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc H533ro s]
Connecticut. Dept. of Transportation. Managing Travel in Connecticut :
100 Years of Progress ; Connecticut Department of Transportation 100 year
history.
[Newington, Conn.?] : The Department in cooperation with the Federal Highway
Administration, [1995]
[CSL Call Number ConnDoc T687 matr]
Connecticut. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Management Services. Historical Events: Connecticut Department of Transportation. Wethersfield, Connecticut : Department of Transportation, 1987. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc T687ms hiev]
Creamer, Warren M. History Outline of the Connecticut State Highway
Department.
Wethersfield, Connecticut : Dept. of Transportation, 1975.
[CSL Call Number ConnDoc T687 his]
Connecticut. State Planning Board. History of Transportation in Connecticut. Hartford : The Board, 1937. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc P693tr]
Department of Transportation history at their web site.
Archived Department of Transportation Web site, as harvested on 2007-04-13, by the Connecticut State Library, Connecticut Digital Archive.
Agency Documents and Records in the State Library Collections :
Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :
Connecticut. Dept. of Transportation.
Annual Reports are located in :
Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc F40 d], and 2002-, the online version
State Archives Record Group : RG 089
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Name |
Years Served |
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George J. Conkling |
1969-1971 |
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A. Earl Wood |
1971-1973 |
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Joseph B. Burns |
1973-March 1975 |
|
Samuel Kanell |
March-December 1975 |
|
James F. Shugrue |
January 1976-January 1979 |
|
Arthur B. Powers |
January 1979-October 1981 |
|
J. William Burns |
October 1981-February 1991 |
| Emil H. Frankel |
February 1991-January 1995 |
|
J. William Burns |
January 1995-31 January 1997 |
| James F. Sullivan |
1 February 1997-1 February 2002 |
|
James F. Byrnes, Jr. (Acting) |
February 2002-February 2003 |
|
James F. Byrnes, Jr. |
March 2003-April 2004 |
|
Stephen E. Korta, II |
1 April 2004-2006 |
Ralph J. Carpenter |
August 2006-Jan. 2008 |
Emil H. Frankel (Interim) |
January-May 2008 |
Joseph F. Marie |
May 2008-June 2010 |
Jeffrey Parker |
June 2010-Present |
Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 01/2011.