Show highway costs exceed connecticut auto fees more than in excess of automobile fees wits was spent toward improving the highways of connecticut luring during the 1923 fiscal year motorcar fees received by the state for the year aggregated while the expense for or highway work was statistics just compiled by the state highway department show that since IDIS 1818 the number of motor vehicles vehicle s increased from to in 1923 thle this includes commercial trucks and passenger cars at the same time the mileage of surfaced roods roads increased from at the close of 1913 to 1770 for 1023 ts automobile registration for the fiscal year was cars new haven led all other cities with a total of represented by passenger cars and trucks hartford was a close second with exceeding new haven in passenger vehicles with but fell below in trucks with bridgeport came third with a total of cars followed by waterbury new britain and stanford stamford contracts pending in Fair fairfield fiela new haven maddle middlesex sex and new london counties on the improvement of the boston post road will materially increase in a few months the payments made in those these districts |