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The state’s governor (a former Cheney administration budget official) has leased the Indiana toll road to the same Spanish-Australian consortium that’s running the Chicago Skyway (he’s taken some political lumps for it, not necessarily for good reasons). A similar arrangement may be the only way the much needed (or is it unwanted?) Illiana Expressway will get built.
Read the story by Rick Richards in the Michigan City News-Dispatch (free registration required; additional coverage here). It’s now possible to say in public that government, with all its failings, might serve the people of northwest Indiana better than an out-of-state holding company that can’t tell Gary from Grayslake and couldn’t care less. (I’m not convinced that government actually can, but the threat of an alternative seems to be the only thing that keeps big-time capitalists honest.)
