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To my knowledge, in France, the national road systems are private (but weren't always) and charge massive tolls, but maintenance is paid for by contracts from t
by brobdingnagians 7y ago
To my knowledge, in France, the national road systems are private (but weren't always) and charge massive tolls, but maintenance is paid for by contracts from the government. So all of the private owners of the roads also run sister companies that do maintenance. The government pays exorbitant prices to the companies to do maintenance for the roads that they then also make large amounts of toll from.
I'm not saying I fully support private roads or public roads, but the worst combination is a little bit of both...
- ptah 7y ago"autoroutes belong to the French state and their administration to semi-private companies." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoroutes_of_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoroutes_of_France
- Leherenn 7y agoTo make it even worse, they were built using taxpayer's money, then sold for peanuts to those companies. It's corruption at an astronomical scale.