If leasing out Alligator Alley is such a great idea, why don't we instead lease out the rights to build lanes 7-10 on I75. The leasing company could charge as much as they want. When no one pays the toll and they do not make enough money to pay the lease the state could take back the road and we get a free highway.

Oh, Saah1, if only it were that simple!
The 'state' can not take back a road and get a free highway. There is a little thing called a 50 year contract. In that contract, there is an agreed-upon sell-back clause. The 'state' buys back the road at an enormous cost. But, guess what, the money earned from the 'sale' of the road is gone. Many years earlier, it was all spent ... it's kaput ... outta here! Where does the 'state' come up with a spare billion or two, or three, to buy back a roadway that should have been built with tax money to begin with!!? Now, the 'state' has to purchase a roadway for billions from our limited supply of transportation fund dollars. You can forget any public funding for building or improving other needed roads for quite some time. Look at "The Big Dig" Every available resource went into that boondoggle for years. Transportation improvements were neglected statewide for years ... because there was no money left to address transportation needs anywhere in the state! Corporations win every time. That's why we can't let a corporation take over our infrastructure.

i love the "lower gases not higher tolls"
i wrote to Gov. Crist about drilling on our coast and was sent a generics "its all about the marine life" letter
to say the least i am very frustrated since i have been an avid supporter of Gov. Crist
It's the same old thing "to heck with the us humans and all for all other forms of life"