Congressional Budget Office: Toll roads are not free money
February 2, 2012 Link to Driving News Summary
Lawmakers see “public-private partnerships” as the solution to their transportation funding difficulties by turning to the private sector to pay for infrastructure improvements through tolling. A report released last month by the non-partisan government analysts at the Congressional Budget Office found the purported benefits of this financing mechanism were mostly illusory, as taxpayers end up paying roughly the same amount either way.
