I'm sure that "down the road", say 10yrs or so the private company that built the road will have to be rescued at the taxpayers expense. That will be on top of the extra money the taxpayers had to fork out to cover the original blow-out of building it in the 1st place. On top of that, every year or so the tolls will increase because the company will claim the usage/revenue isn't meeting forecasts made several years ago.
Private enterprise is only interested in making money - they are not neccissarily any better (in many cases worse!) than direct government involvement - I personally hope that PPI (public-private initiatives) DO NOT become the norm, they dont work in USA / UK and they wont work here.
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