California
AB 680, passed in 1989, allowed up to four private highway franchises to be granted. The 91 Express Lanes in the median of the Riverside Freeway were privately owned and operated by a private consortium (one of the members of which was Cofiroute, France's largest private highway operator) from 1995 to 2003.
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—Joan Didion (b. 1935)
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