Please explain how this is pork, since not only 100% of the road's construction and maintenance costs will be paid by a private firm (who will recoup the cost via tolls), but $1.2 billion will be paid to the state by the firm for the franchise rights. The state will spend less than $50 million in initial studies and related costs. So the next cost to taxpayers is -$1.15 billion, meaning the state makes a $1.15 billion dollar profit on a $50 million investment.
Funny how in this case the best thing that the government can do is: as little as possible.
Who pays the tolls, the tooth fairy?
Paying for roads at toll booths is a bad way to fund roads. The public pays for them one way or another, and handing a virtual monopoy for travel between city A and city B to a private company is a bad idea.
Private toll roads were the norm in Colonial America. We got rid of them for a reason.
I certainly hope that TTC-35 will take more than 15 per cent of the traffic off of I-35. I've read about how much of a b*tch that road is.
Didn't exactly see that there. Just sounds like they have some money for a road with no specific objective in the first place.
Hmmmm. Was he perhaps referring to LTOWM ... "liberals, the other white meat?"