Cintras is buying the rights to toll roads from Texas to Indiana and investing in linking them up and expanding their capabilities.
The states are selling their own sovreignty over these arteries for short-term, budget-balancing reasons and in the process handing the next century of toll revenues (and control of use) to Spain.
Toll roads = evil = inneficiency. Which is why Libertarians love them (private roads).
Thank you for the name, Cintras.
An article that appeared a few years ago in an archaeological journal described how the public spaces and buildings of the city of Rome were sold off for cash by a succession of needy imperial administrations and subdivided and "privatized". The Theater of Marcellus became an apartment-house for 1500 years, as did the great temples in the Roman Forum and imperial fora. Latterday archaeologists have taken a new interest in retracing and outlining the crude partitioning schemes that were imposed on the porches and vestibules of the formerly great public buildings, which were progressively stripped of their marbles and ornamentation for cash, and for building materials. Fine Proconnesian and Pentelic marbles were burned for lime, and their exquisite decorative reliefs with them. And the Forum itself filled with shabby apartment houses that encroached into the formerly public space as it was sold off or rented, then sublet again and again, until, in the time of Honorius, one couldn't even look across the Forum any longer, but only up, into narrow strips of sky defined by narrow, rat-warren alleys. Sic transit, et cetera.
That's what privatization of the public trust does for you.