simon32 wrote:France also has this, eg the privatisation of the Autoroutes.
Simon
Our autoroutes and major roads have been privatised to some degree for aeons though it's not well known. Highways England, a government agency, contracts out various combinations of build, operate and maintain contracts to private companies who build and look after the roads for an upfront payment and a yearly fee against a spec, which is one reason we have quite a lot of potholes in some major roads and not others, it all depends on the contractor and how effective/efficient/conscientious they are and what the deal looked like.
A417/419 through the Cotswolds is approaching the end of a 30 year PFI deal with a consortium involving AMEC and Alfred MacAlpine, for example . That was carefully designed to match the likely life of a noisy stretch of concrete which will need replacing at vast expense in the next decade.
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