P3s have a track record of sound performance in Texas and elsewhere and offer some advantages over traditional transportation financing. With COVID reducing transportation funding sources by perhaps more than $700 million over the remainder of the current biennium compared to what the Comptroller projected in the January 2019 BRE, the Legislature should consider turning to private funds to ensure that Texas’s transportation infrastructure is able to accommodate the state’s economic growth and ever-growing population.
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