Christie looks to privatize motor vehicle inspections, other services (contractor, employees, contract)

[Wonderful Jellal]

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New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.

State parks, psychiatric hospitals and even turnpike toll booths could also be run by private operators, according to the 57-page report on privatization obtained by The Star-Ledger. Preschool classrooms would no longer be built at public expense, state employees would pay for parking and private vendors would dish out food, deliver health care and run education programs behind prison walls.

NorthJersey.com: Christie looks to privatize motor vehicle inspections, other services

[wanneroo]

Privatizing is much better. You can scale things up and down depending on demand.

You can also replace contractors as well.

State employees are deadwood that can't be shifted around or removed. This whole system we have of massive, unmoving bureaucracies needs to go.

[wheelsup]

If I was governor I wouldn't privatize toll booths. I would just privatize the staffing of toll booths. And I'd get rid of toll booths as soon as the project was paid for. I'm sorry but the GWB has been paid for thousands of times over @ $5/pop.