Paul Page
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38 appearances
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first heard Feb 2018
last heard Feb 2018
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They peel off profit in some way by user fees or tolls.
Those companies, and there are a bunch of them around the world and in the United States, generally look for high volume type of business for highways that are heavily used, commuter routes outside Washington, D.C., in Ohio, outside Chicago, in some very highly populated areas of Texas.
there's a lot of need by the transportation industry in a large swath of the country that does not have high volumes of traffic and is not seen as sort of generating the profits that private industry would want.
Rural areas, Wyoming, Nebraska, these places which involve, which carry a lot of heavy truck traffic, which carry a lot of commerce, don't
otherwise have the great volume of traffic that tollers, for instance, would be looking for.
Indeed, that's one area where particularly people in the larger transportation industry, a lot of builders, a lot of users of highways and ports, as well as a lot of Democrats and Republicans on the Hill would like to see some
some movement.
The administration thinks it can cut some permitting that now can go, for instance, up to 10 years, down to a year or two or even shorter.
So there's a lot of interest in that kind of proposal.
It also has a lot of opposition because a lot of people, particularly the Democrats, see that as an attempt to do an end around environmental rules and other oversight and reviews of projects.
It is the brightest spotlight.
One of the problems right now is that as much as it's been talked about, no one has really come up with a solution to a lot of the divisions over where you get the money.
That's really the crux of the matter.
Where does this money come from?
Everyone sort of agrees that you should spend a great deal of money.
There's some debate about whether it's $1 trillion or $2 trillion, these kinds of numbers.
But ultimately...
the only agreement you really see in the country right now is that somebody else should pay.
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