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SPECIAL REPORT * USA - OOIDA says privatization of interstates is ‘anti-American’
Grain Valley, Missouri ,USA -Land Line Magazine -Dec. 1, 2006: -- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is letting Pennsylvania officials know that leasing the state’s roads to private companies is not only unacceptable, but un-American... Proposals to sell the turnpike to private companies is a wrong-headed idea and to consider selling this national asset to foreign companies even more so, OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer said... He called the privatization proposal by Rep. Richard Geist, R-Altoona, a “choreographed campaign being driven by foreign-based private interests.”... Spencer calls the proposed privatization of the nation’s interstates, including Macquarie’s expressed interest in leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike, New Jersey Turnpike and possibly even the Ohio Turnpike, a “pawn-shop mentality” by politicians... “The Pennsylvania Turnpike is the nation’s first superhighway,” Spencer said. “Selling it to foreign interests is as un-American as it gets.”... Macquarie paid $3.85 billion to Indiana in exchange for keeping the tolls for the next 75 years and controlling the operation and maintenance on the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road. The company leased the 8-mile Chicago Skyway for $1.83 billion... Spencer urged truckers and the voting public to stay involved to make sure Pennsylvania doesn’t take the same path...
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