[fr4tad]

Ports and airlines and roads!! Oh My!!!

[Rodney King]

This is a good thing. What better than to sell items that foreign countries can't actually posess? Are people afraid that during a war or something the spanish might close the road and send an army to keep it closed?

[Mo1]

So Illinois lawmakers are examining privatizing the Illinois Tollway, New Jersey lawmakers are considering selling 49 percent of the state's two big toll roads and a gubernatorial candidate in Ohio wants to sell the turnpike.

Jersey is going to give up their tolls??

[who knows what evil?]

We might offer a tunnel in the Boston area for sale...needs work; sold "as is". Maybe France would be interested?

[Alberta's Child]

The timing of these announcements with the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Interstate Highway System isn't a coincidence. The plain truth is that major elements of the U.S. highway system are reaching the end of their design life, and this country simply doesn't have the financial means to rehabilitate/upgrade it through existing revenue streams.

[mtbopfuyn]

Fine by me. When we get mad at them and kick them out they can't take a road with them.

[Last Dakotan]

Fruits of our trade deficits.

[Ben Ficklin]

Notice that the first line of the article says sold and the second line says lease.

[zeugma]

This has alrready been posted but the thread was kind of dying. Might want to check the discussion there too. Good stuff on the thread.

[calcowgirl]

Some experts welcome the trend. Robert Poole, transportation director for the conservative think tank Reason Foundation, said private investors can raise more money than politicians to build new roads because these kind of owners are willing to raise tolls.

Institute tolls and then raise tolls--on roads that we already pay taxes for.