If President Trump Abandons Support for Public-Private Partnerships, He'll Have Trouble...

Yes, it is. I’ve worked infrastructure projects most of my professional life and I can say public/private partnerships for roads and bridges, from what I’ve seen, typically involve a 20 or 30 year maintenance agreement after a road or structure is replaced. When do you think many of the repairs will be needed? Probably at half to three quarters of their life: 30 to 50 years for bridges.

Then a mechanism needs to go in place if the government doesn’t just pay a contractor/engineer firm to perform the work out of tax money collected; most likely it will be a toll. To me that’s another name for a tax. Then when you think about all that... the government will still need a project manager to track all the stuff the contractor/engineer is doing… so are we saving money? Probably not, but it sure as hell sounds good.