“This is not the TTC. The Grand Parkway has been in the works for a very long time.”
It’s TTC-light to me. I know the GP has been around for decades. It was first a freeway, then a toll road, now a monopolized private toll road...just as the TTC was going to be. That was always my problem with the TTC.
Anyway, I doubt that once Cintra does the math that they will want to have anything to do with it, as private toll roads without captive populations have a history of carnage in this country (Camino Cambio [sp., the one at the Mexico border] Dulles Extension, etc.).
I just wish this entire monopoly-private-toll road thing would just GO AWAY. And, I guess, the governor knows that just as well, considering that he waited until the legislature was disbanded to start this crap again.
The problem with the TTC was not I-69, or leasing the toll road, it was the size of the thing and jamming every type of land transport known to man in a single super wide right-of-way.
Leasing a toll road to a private entity is not a problem as long as the public does not get screwed by the lease terms.
And, I guess, the governor knows that just as well, considering that he waited until the legislature was disbanded to start this crap again.
You realize it was the Legislature that extended this project and others in the legislative session that ended in late May?