What If They Built a Toll Road and No One Came?

摘要

Eleven million trucks. That's how many 18-wheelers needed to rumble across northern Indiana in 2010 for the state's 157-mile toll road to break even. Unfortunately, only about half that many did and the road came up $209 million short. This sounds like the beginning of yet another story about recession-ravaged states bleeding cash. And it is, sort of. The twist is that the Indiana Toll Road is managed not by the state but by a group of corporate investors, part of a public-private partnership experiment intended to show how businesses can help government run more efficiently and save taxpayers money-all while turning a profit.