On 17 Mar 2007, at 03:22, Erik Mattheis wrote: > Anybody have an opinion on private highways? Do the European ones > offer > advantages over publicly owned ones? Well, advantages if you can pay the toll, yes. In that you can get through the Birmingham area on a Friday afternoon within your own lifespan. And don't get me started on private bridges that ended up costing the taxpayer more than just building the damned bridge. Even when the govt forced the ferry competition on the route to close... Cheers Martin -- > Spammers: Send me email -> yumyum at easyweb.co.uk to train my filter > http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ Sell Cloth Nappies from your website: http://www.purpur.co.uk/announcing-purpur-associates