Taxing to Pay for Transit Costs
I see (Part A, Jan. 9) that Transportation Director Robert Best has signed contracts with the California Toll Road Co., an international consortium, to build several toll roads in California. What is going on? I read the papers and listen to the news, but this is the first I have heard about privatizing our roads to foreign investors. We can’t be taken over by an invading foreign army but we are being taken over just as surely by foreign investors.
Why haven’t the Democrats in state government been up in arms about this? This is a legacy of our former unlamented Gov. George Deukmejian, which, I am sad to say, is also supported by our new one, Pete Wilson.
FRANK V. WILBY
Los Angeles
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