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The Connecticut Public Transportation Authority was created within the Department of Transportation (DOT) in 1975 to "advise and assist the commissioner in the performance of his functions and duties relating to the planning, development and maintenance of adequate rail and motor carrier facilities and service in the state." The Authority was charged to "at least annually…hold public hearings in each of the urbanized areas of the state for the purpose of evaluating the adequacy of such rail and motor carrier facilities." In 1983 the name was changed to the Connecticut Public Transportation Commission.