Right on walkyrie, people like brissy usually have some sort of stake either in contracts with government of shares in companies that do. Turning things like road maintenance over to private industry is an instant recipe that say's a company is going to bilk taxpayers. It end up costing taxpayers far more. Look at Alberta, when they did this they also have legislation that stops people from seeing what the price is. Reporters have tried to access the cost since privatizing but can't so nobody knows. I wonder why that is. Even the auditor general has no access to examine the consequences of privatization. WHY ?? And generally speaking the roads were less safe too.

http://dontletgo.ca/snow-clearing/

Plus the public/private undertaking is very costly especially for taxpayers

http://www.policynote.ca/privatizing-public-infrastructure-is-enormously-costly-lets-not-repeat-the-mistake/