Public cool to plan to privatize toll road
Source: BY ANI MARTINEZ, Miami Herald (FL), Sun, Jun. 01, 2008
FOR LEASE: A 78-mile, four-lane toll road, built in the late 1960s, upgraded in 1980s. Slippery when wet. Views of cattle, alligators, brush fires, mucky canals and car wrecks.
PRICE: negotiable.
Alligator Alley, the four-lane toll road, is up for bids.
The Florida Department of Transportation is looking for a private company to lease the 78-mile section of I-75 that connects Southwest and Southeast Florida.
The private company would operate and maintain the road for 50 years or more. The state would still own it.
The bidding process is still in the early stages, but residents in Collier and Broward counties are not enamored with the idea.