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TOLL ROADS
* USA - Macquarie bidding on several Texas ones
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -29 Jan 2007: -- The Australian investment company Macquarie believes there’s money to be made in Texas these days. Not only did Macquarie’s media division buy 40 community newspapers last week, but its infrastructure division is bidding on several toll road projects in the Lone Star State... According to the Texas Department of Transportation Web site, Macquarie Infrastructure Group of Australia is the dominating name on a list of about two dozen companies bidding on toll road projects, five in all. The companies are packaged together in corporate conglomerations of four or five, and the groups carry a variety of names... Macquarie Infrastructure Group is the name of a consortium bidding to build a toll road in northern Dallas – a 23-mile extension of state Highway 121 to U.S. 75. Macquarie’s name also appears on three other toll road bids...
* USA - Mississippi bill would use tolls as new revenue source
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -29 Jan 2007: -- A Mississippi state lawmaker has renewed his push for legislation that would create tolls along some roads and bridges in the state and give the state another tool to raise revenue... The newest effort, offered by Sen. Charlie Ross, R-Brandon, would authorize the Mississippi Transportation Commission, county boards of supervisors and city officials to contract with private industry to construct roads and bridges and collect tolls to pay off the work...
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