It is scary and disappointing that a state would prostitute to a foreign company pieces of a road that is owned BY THE PEOPLE. Did the people of the state approve this? This is not right and should be banned. If I lived in this state I would consider moving even in these hard times. Unbelievable and sickening.
One of the really disgusting elements of this is that the people of the state DID NOT approve this, nor did the General Assembly, which turned responsibility for this over to the state Department of Transportation (VDOT) (non-elected bureaucrats, non-accountable), the agency that signed on the dotted line. I don’t remember any candidate for state elected office running on a platform of turning our interstate over to a foreign entity. I can’t imagine what the bureaucrats were “thinking,” if you can call it that, because it will not relieve traffic, it will not be environmentally friendly and it will cost the taxpayers through the nose. So, who will benefit? The foreign company, and perhaps one or more people who plan to retire from VDOT and go to work for the corporation. I do not know that for a fact, but it is the most reasonable explanation I can come up with for what is happening. There has to be a skunk (or a herd of skunks) in the works somewhere, because otherwise it makes no sense.