Quote:Competing to have you drive on their road?  I mean I don't know about you, but usually my first thought is to where I'm going, not what roads I'm going on.  


And in this scenario are we allowing private businesses to own the roads?  Or just to maintain them

 

You still don't have much incentive to maintain back roads.  I'm not sure how much cheaper 'for profit' companies could do it either.  Especially since some of that government waste -- and I'm sure you will disagree that this happens, but it does -- comes from the government outsourcing things to the private sector.

 

Duval County needs a new highway built call it 9C.

 

Company A would submit a bid to build said road, in their proposal they would have any tolls they would charge after building the road, for how long they would charge the tolls before releasing the road back to the county, any maintenance fee's they would charge the county during their ownership of the road.

 

Company B see's that Company A has submitted a bid to build the road, to gain a competitive advantage Company B tells Duval county not only will they build the road for close to the same price, they'll offer drivers a discounted pass to drive on their road. There bid also details how long they would charge tolls and passes before releasing the road back to the county, any maintenance fee's they would charge the county during their ownership of the road.

 

Company C wants in on the action, they do all the same as company B, but offer different maintenance fee's and structure that would save the county money during their ownership of the road

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