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These example that you use as public-private partnership(PPP)are not. They are public. The DFW turnpike was the first in Texas and it was freed in 70s. I don't know when it was built, it was there when I came up.

As others have mentioned, there are numerous newer examples of public toll roads, all local or regional, under the authority of the local/regional mobility authoriy.

You are 100% correct. I got ahead of myself. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority is 100% governmental. But the Massachusetts governor doesn't control them and they often do whatever the heck they want: after all, they have their own revenue stream to play around with. It's a private fiefdom for those who run it who hire their friends and political allies to work there. You have to be "connected" to get a toll takers job there. The compensation is v good

I don't know the details of that Mass TA but probably the appointments are political for periods that outlast the appointer. Your right about the 90 grand/yr toll booth attendent.

With a private design-build-operate-maintain, none of that happens.