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Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock by jandrese on Thursday February 16, 2017 @09:53AM (#13660253)
We have one of those dynamic price roads around here. It starts out overpriced and goes up from there. It's basically the road for the 1%. Usage has been a quite a bit lower than the estimates so the taxpayers have been on the hook for lost profits.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/17/not-so-fast-...

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Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock by jessriedel on Thursday February 16, 2017 @10:04AM (#13660358)
I heard once that there was a government-managed construction project not featuring dynamic pricing, and that it cost much more than expected so the taxpayers were on the hook for the cost.
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