Well, this ought to kick the toll-road-sale debate up several notches. Indiana got a bid from Australia's Macquarie Infrastructure Group, and it's huge -- $3.8 billion:
The bid [...] marks the most a U.S. municipality has ever been offered for any asset, according to state officials.
``It's unprecedented,'' said Charles Schalliol, Governor Mitch Daniels's budget director, in a telephone interview. ``This is a blowout bid for the state.''
[...]
The bid eclipses the $1.83 billion Chicago got last year for selling its only toll road, a 7.8-mile elevated highway known as the Skyway.
