Summary
[Ed Rendell] wants to lease the turnpike to a Spanish firm, Abertis Infraestructuras, for $12.8 billion. Actually, I'm not sure "lease" is the right word: The deal is supposed to last 75 years, which is longer than the road itself has been in existence. But the deal supposedly limits how high Abertis can raise tolls, and protects the turnpike's unionized workers - at least until their contract expires.
Too late. Remember the Elizabeth Township Sanitary Authority? The folks who dumped untreated sewage into the Youghiogheny River last winter and fall? The sewage-treatment facility was operated by a private company, Veolia Water, owned by the French. (Strangely, I don't recall any of the "Press 1 for English" crowd screaming about that. Maybe it's OK to deluge us with merde, as long as we're not being flooded with immigrants who speak your language.)Highways are just the beginning: On the same day Rendell proposed the Abertis lease, Allegheny County's sewer authority told a state legislative panel that repairing the county's sewers would cost well over $1 billion. No one knows where that money will come from either.See the full content of this document
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Dead End
I KNEW THIHGS were getting strange when the Pennsylvania Turnpike started advertising.
Maybe you haven't seen the TV spot, which obviously wasn't prompted by the massive competition the turnpike faces from other overpriced toll ro...See the full content of this document
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