National Journal: What Role Should Public-Private Partnerships Play?

From National Journal:

Regardless of whether Congress follows Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's lead and rejects the idea of increasing the gasoline tax, it will likely have to come up with several answers to the question of how to finance the next surface transportation bill. What role should public-private partnerships play in the future of the U.S. transportation system? And what can lawmakers learn from two new studies on them: the Pew Center on the States' report on the debate over leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a private firm and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund's report on protecting the public from bad deals?