Every train on this map is faster than any train in America.To bridge the impasse here, Mr Yglesias turns to a post by Edward Glaeser in yesterday's New York Times that's vaguely positive about the idea of experiments in more privatisation of transportation infrastructure.
Last week's announcement of infrastructure privatisation suggests the new orthodoxy for Cameron and Osborne: when in doubt, Thatcherise it.
This disjunction operates through interlinked transformations concerning, for example, privatisation and outsourcing in network services, separation of infrastructure planning from broader urban planning, contradictions between the environmental and social mandates of infrastructure, and a (prospective) curtailment of the redistributive, social role of essential network service provision.
Zembri-Mary [1] reviews the development in France of competition in rail infrastructure investment, the privatisation of motorway companies and the growth of public-private partnerships, and assesses the impacts of these on project evaluation.
"Greece is accelerating privatisation and infrastructure construction.
Missouri Development Finance Board, $69.6 million of infrastructure refinancing revenue bonds.
While EU officials and politicians berate Ukraine for backsliding – on privatisation, modernising the infrastructure and, of course, corruption – the buccaneers of US business give a fine impression of remaining bullish.
These are (i) changes in sexual attitudes and behaviours, (ii) the new mobility of the population, and (iii) privatisation of the healthcare system with underinvestment in public health infrastructure.
Baird campaigned on the privatisation of electricity assets, promising billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure to sweeten the deal.
In order to reduce uneven regional development between the East and West, in 2000, the Chinese government launched a campaign to 'open up the West', with an emphasis on developing infrastructure and promoting market economy through the privatisation of state-owned enterprises and increased foreign direct investments (Chow 2007).
