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Article: Pew Report Finds Major Flaws in Pennsylvania's Effort to Lease Turnpike.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- April 8, 2009
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The unsuccessful effort last year to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to private investors provides valuable lessons for other cash-strapped states seeking to fund their highways and bridges, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States. With an annual funding gap of $47 billion between the roadway projects the nation needs and those it can afford, states with large deficits and an urgent need to fix aging infrastructure are looking closely at public-private partnerships - a financing approach used in other countries for years but only recently adopted in the United States (see also Pew Center on the States).
In Pennsylvania, lawmakers debated a ...