“While it’s easy to beat up on the gas, Maryland can always take the Texas approach and basically hand over control of its highways to private companies for the purpose of monopoly-protected tolling.”
Until the age of FDR, that’s how civil infrastructure was built. It’s the major reason why we are the only industrial country in the world whose railroads are privately owned.
“Until the age of FDR, that’s how civil infrastructure was built. It’s the major reason why we are the only industrial country in the world whose railroads are privately owned.”
We were also the first country to have a true FREEWAY system, paid by people that bought gasoline (i.e., the users)...without fat-cats making out like bandits.
If you want to go back to the robber baron days of the railroads, feel free - come move here to Texas, we’re in the middle of repeating that DISASTER.