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An interesting game of chicken. I have never been a fan of private money in public transportation costs as from what I saw in my day: the private companies were only required to maintain the infrastructure in the first half of its life. This effectively left the private companies off the hook for the largest maintenance costs of the infrastructure in its last half life with the feds and state needing to pick up the tab. In this case it looks like they are trying to toll the road to keep a cash flow coming into the private company(s). There is no free lunch, pay now or pay later.