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Examples of public-private partnerships

Public-private partnerships, which are authorized and outlined in state law, are expected to be the future of public infrastructure projects. They offer private companies a way to make money doing things governments once did. They give governments an option to build or expand public facilities when they don't have the resources or need a project to move faster than it would if the government was seeking bids and awarding contracts in the traditional manner. The state's first public-private partnership law in the late 1980s was narrow — it applied to just one road construction project, the Dulles Greenway. In the 1990s and 2000s, more laws were passed to enable both...