Infrastructure
Guest Post: ‘The Toll Road to Serfdom’- Privatization Takes Us Back to the Future
By Peter Kinder
In the last quarter century, states from Virginia to Colorado to California have seen privatizing roads as a great source of immediate cost savings and cash. But what do these deals mean in the long term? What effects will they have on our society? And what does the nineteenth century experience with privatized roads and bridges teach us?
Guest Post: ‘The Toll Road to Serfdom’- Privatization Takes Us Back to the Future
Submitted by Jason Chang on Sun, 03/20/2011 - 11:06pm
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Peter Kinder In the last quarter century, states from Virginia to Colorado to California have seen privatizing roads as a great source of immediate cost savings and cash. But what do these deals mean in the long term? What effects will they have on our society? And what does the nineteenth century experience with privatized roads and bridges teach us?
