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Road to success is being paved with public-private partnerships
Transportation Today ^ | June 17, 2019 | Hil Anderson

Posted on 06/22/2019 4:44:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ground was broken this month on an anxiously awaited highway project outside of Washington, D.C., one of the latest examples of the public and private sector acting as partners to advance critical state and local infrastructure projects.

The June 6 launch of the Fredericksburg Extension Project – a 10-mile extension of express toll lanes on the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia nicknamed the “FredEx” – featured the leadership of a public-private partnership (P3) that will get the $565 million job done by the end of 2022. The state’s governor and its transportation secretary launched the project as the public side of the P3, and executives from toll-road operator Transurban would be the private side of the partnership.

“Not only will this project reduce congestion and provide important corridor improvements, but as a result of this joint commitment from our public and private sector partners, this project is also estimated to create 9,100 jobs and generate $1.1 billion in economic activity for this fast-growing region,” Gov. Ralph Northam said during the ceremony, summing up the basic premise of P3s, which are increasingly being formed to push through road projects designed to ease traffic congestion in the high-growth areas where new jobs and taxpayers are clustering.

Transurban’s role in the project is to ride to the rescue of cash-strapped states and other governments by financing increasingly costly and urgently needed traffic projects in exchange for operational control and the ability to collect tolls from thousands of annoyed drivers every day. The Australia-based corporation has toll roads around the world and said in its most-recent annual report that its toll revenues had increased 8 percent to more than $2.2 billion for the year.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; US: Texas; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: annuities; brattlegroup; construction; dallas; expresslanes; fluor; funding; infrastructure; ohio; ralphnortham; revenues; texas; tolls; transportation; transurban; virginia

1 posted on 06/22/2019 4:44:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: BobL; sphinx; oldvirginian; GreenLanternCorps

PING.


2 posted on 06/22/2019 4:47:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Modern Democrat Party: America's largest hate group.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If the rats are in charge I wouldn’t.


3 posted on 06/22/2019 4:49:31 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Giving right of way purchased with taxpayer money to foreign investors so they can charge taxpayers to ride on roadways that they’ve already paid for.

Sounds like a profitable business plan to me.


4 posted on 06/22/2019 5:16:18 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Is there any PPP (i.e., private toll road) that actually is LIKED by the general public, or is it just politicians (with pockets lined by lobbyists) who like them?


5 posted on 06/22/2019 5:17:51 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: PAR35

No kidding! You nailed it.

Why AUSTRALIA! ?? Why not Americans First, as the private partner? Too conservative probably for the Dim VA governor. Really, there “oughta be a Law”...


6 posted on 06/22/2019 5:37:00 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skools/Academia are the Marxists Farm Team for more coming. Infinitum.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“public and private sector acting as partners”

Just like the high speed train in kali-fornia. Unless Australia has eliminated graft and corruption.


7 posted on 06/22/2019 5:48:45 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: dynachrome
>>...public and private sector...<<

Crony Capitalism

8 posted on 06/22/2019 6:54:29 PM PDT by ex91B10 (Powered by the Penguin)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It may also be said; “The Road to Corruption is being paved with public-private partnerships.”


9 posted on 06/22/2019 7:13:06 PM PDT by Daffy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bump


10 posted on 06/22/2019 8:45:25 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In a good ole day there was a word for public-private partnership. Fascism. They thought it was cool up until it wasn’t.


11 posted on 06/22/2019 9:47:29 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: PAR35

Kind of like Texas 130


12 posted on 06/23/2019 6:40:49 AM PDT by TexanByBirth (Free Republic: where they may agree with the message, but they love to shoot the messenger!)
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Akron Al; arbee4bush; agrace; ATOMIC_PUNK; Badeye; big bad easter bunny; ...

OHIO PING!

Please let me know if you want on or off the Ohio Ping list.

“Road to success is being paved with public-private partnerships.”

The Southern Ohio Veterans Memorial Highway in the Appalachian region of southern Ohio was built toll-free by the Portsmouth Gateway Group, which will be paid by the state to maintain the 16-mile project for the next 35 years.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3758778/posts


13 posted on 06/28/2019 4:59:36 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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