PolicyGuy

Wednesday, May 26, 2004


Privatized Rest Areas.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is calling on the State of Michigan to contract out the operation of or sell outright its 83 rest areas.

The state spends nearly $7 million per year in upkeep and operational expenses, costs that could be borne by private companies that had a franchise to sell food or other goods and services in the rest areas. The State of Ohio, for example, received over $12 million in 2002 from rest areas on the Ohio Turnpike. (Toll roads are free of the state and federal prohibitions on commercial activity on government-owned land near highways.)

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