Missouri’s Transportation Funding Future

Economy | July 24, 2012

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 min

The economic literature on the use of public-private partnerships and toll roads (the two are generally related) to provide highways is clearly positive. This includes economic analyses of PPPs that do not support their use in many other public services. Simply put, the use of
public-private partnerships to fund and operate transportation
infrastructure has been studied and found to be an effective method of
meeting the public interest.

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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