Any time a government official - a lawmaker, for example - accepts something of worth from a government contractor, it creates the perception of impropriety. Indeed, the perception of impropriety can be nearly as damaging to the image of government as the reality of impropriety. It is with that in mind that we frown on the news that some northern Indiana legislators have received free passes to use the Indiana Toll Road across northern Indiana.
A bill that would allow private companies to lease the Indiana Toll Road and build Interstate 69 as a privately operated tollway passed out of a House Committee late Tuesday, but only with Republican support. Earlier in the day, Gov. Mitch Daniels was in Evansville to pitch the plan, which would give the state a $3.85 billion payment in lease proceeds for the tollway, the east-west corridor located in extreme northern Indiana.
On Apr 12, 2006, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels leased the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road to ITR Concession Co LLC, a consortium composed of a Spanish and an Australian company. Under the agreement, the private entity paid the State of Indiana $3.8 billion and promised to operate and maintain the road for the next 75 years in exchange for various tax breaks and the right to collect toll revenues during that period. Part I of this Article describes the current toll road phenomenon, and Part II provides background about the wider privatization trend. Part III examines the potential benefits of toll road privatizations, and the potential problems that may arise due to tensions between competing goals of the programs themselves and due to losses in democratic accountability. Part IV advances sp...
Gov. Mitch Daniels said Indiana's share of the cost of two planned Ohio River bridges "would be in jeopardy" if lawmakers fail to give him the authority to lease the Indiana Toll Road to a private company. Southern Indiana lawmakers expressed surprise over the governor's comments, saying they had believed the money for the bridges being planned jointly by Indiana and Kentucky was relatively secure under a draft 10-year highway plan prepared by the Daniels administration. "I was under the understanding that the bridges would be funded a regardless," said state Rep. Dennie Oxley, D-English. "It was incorporated as a part of the 10-year plan.
INDIANAPOLIS - Sweeping past Indiana's steel mills and corn and soybean fields, the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road is often called the "Main Street of the Midwest" for its strategic role in linking the East Coast to Chicago and points west. Now the highway across the heartland could fall into private hands.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Concerns about job security and annual raises will be on the minds of some Indiana Toll Road fare collectors when they vote next month on joining a union. If a majority votes in favor, the collectors will be represented by one of four Teamsters union locals, depending on where they work along the 157-mile highway.
INDIANAPOLIS - Sweeping past Indiana's steel mills and corn and soybean fields, the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road is often called the "Main Street of the Midwest" for its strategic role in linking the East Coast to Chicago and points west. Now the highway across the heartland could fall into private hands.
The better the city is governed and connected, the more amenities, the better the infrastructure and the better,the qualities we are able to offer companies ... the better shape we are in In June 2006, Gov. Mitch Daniels struck a similar deal with Australia-based Macquarie Group Ltd. and Spain-based Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte S.A. In that transaction, the two foreign companies secured a 75-year lease of the Indiana Toll Road for a $3.8 billion upfront payment to the state. [...] Daniels, a Republican, has used the money to underwrite Major Moves, a series of highway improvements across the state.
WASHINGTON Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying. On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years.
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