Just in Indiana, and just in the urban areas of Indiana that these transportation management groups control the toll road system, will have a surcharge included on all economic goods being brought into the area. Since most Indiana urban areas produce very little of their durable and non durable goods, almost all goods trucked into the urban metroplexes will be charged a surcharge that is the cost of the transportation management company's profit margin, it's a tax where collection is shifted onto the private sector, but where the private company can then go and lobby for unlimited increases of the tolls, at a rate that outpaces inflation and toll increases in other states.
Are there any provisions in the bill that would mandate the overall cost to the public to remain lower under private ownership as opposed to public ownership? If not, then I don't how this could be in the publics best interest unless other alternative public highways were relatively accessable.