federal control

Senate negotiators traded off pro- and anti-toll amendments in gaining a majority for S1813, the stopgap bill that reauthorizes bloated federal highway and transit handouts based on a diminishing stream of gasoline tax collections and a whole array of budgetary accounting gimmicks and wishful thinking.

Regardless of party, state governors are opposing moves in the US Congress to second guess their arrangements for privatization of roads, toll concessions, or public private partnerships.