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Officials discuss privatization of turnpike

Source: By Alison Hawkes, Herald-Standard (PA), 11/21/2006


The nation's first superhighway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, could be privatized to generate billions of dollars needed to fix the state's ailing transportation system in an idea quickly gathering political momentum. ...... Rendell said he talked to consultants who indicated that the Turnpike could fetch $3 billion to $10 billion up front.