"Florida is doing a lot of public private construction of roads and bridges and so that is now being explored. Except for opposition from land owners and NMBY folks and those small towns who say we will loose all our traffic it looks like it might get started and done in 5 years. Much faster than if you waited for the public folks to do it.
"It is both a good thing and a bad things as this will be a toll road and it will cost the public to use it until it is paid for." When I visit my family, in Florida, I drive down on tax-payer financed roads. Once in Florida, I enjoy paying many tolls to drive around the state. This is an artifact of the Republican mentality of corporate welfare. Why pay for public utilities, like roads, by spreading the costs amongst all taxpayers when you can let a private company build it and then put its hand into the public pocket in perpetuity (how many tolls disappear?) Virginia started towards this same sort of corporate welfare but the movement has slowed after seeing the results in other states (and after electing more Democrats). ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
