Mary Peters - Transportation Secretary

this months Car & Driver magazine had an interesting article written by Patrick Bedard where he was adressing the problems that come with privately held toll roads. Seems that the companies that do that sort of business like to insert nasty little "no compete" clauses.
In one city (Austin,TX I think.) the clause stipulated reduced speed limits and additional traffic control devices on an existing paralel road in an effort to make that road less attractive to those who didn't want to use the toll road. In California, one such clause did that and required that the existing road not be improved for several years. Some roads cost drivers $1.50 per mile to use.