KY Bill Would Turn Good Highways into Bad Private Toll Roads

What do I keep telling you?  Privatization Kills. This idiocy has been tried elsewhere and the result is always the same: millions of tax dollars and tolls out of your pocket going to out-of-state corporations that fail to maintain or repair the privatized roads.

From the Courier:

A bill filed in the Kentucky General Assembly would permit unique arrangements between private companies and state government to pay for roads and bridges.

Rep. Sannie Overly, a Paris Democrat and majority caucus chair, is a sponsor of the legislation, along with Rep. Leslie Combs, D-Pikeville.

House Bill 456 would allow Kentucky to use “public-private partnerships” — arrangements that can include, for example, companies assuming the financing, design and operations of a road in exchange for collecting toll revenue or other payments. The bill allows the partnerships with adjoining states.