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Privatization advocates led Obama transportation review effort

by: kevinc

Sun Feb 01, 2009 at 22:44

(This is a great complement to my earlier diary, "Why are the Feds Bailing Out the Highway Privatization Industry?" where the author's link to the original prompted me to ask for it to be posted here at Open Left. - promoted by Paul Rosenberg)

The privatization of transportation infrastructure was supposed to be a Bush administration goal, but based on my (LittleSis-powered) review of Obama's transition team, it is a major priority of the new administration, as well.

All three of the Obama transition team leads charged with reviewing the Department of Transportation are privatization advocates. Not only that, but their private sector activities suggest that they stand to profit substantially from further privatization of the nation's transportation infrastructure (highways, bridges, tunnels, and so on).

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