PoD for private ownership of American roads.

What it says on the tin. What PoD would be required to have roads in America be completely privately owned by different companies. Bonus points if there are companies that are exclusively road businesses.
 
POD?

Indiana Toll Road Concession Company before 2014 fits all required conditions, albeit via a long-term lease instead of straight ownership which is common enough. Toll Road Investors Partnership II owns the Dulles Greenway for instance.

the Dulles Greenway is one of the first highways of its kind in the United States, and is the first private road in Virginia since 1816. It was built under the Virginia Highway Act of 1988.

(I get where you're going with it, though your POD is probably Before 1900 :).)
 
All roads is, I think, borderline ASB. The only way I can think of to do it is a PoD in the colonial era whereby the American colonies are entirely developed and owned by the Plymouth Company, Virginia Company et al. In which case the whole thing turns into 'Sixteen Tons' writ large. Might be an interesting dystopia.

Major highways is a fair bit easier. There's plenty of examples of privately-owned highways, all you need to do is have state and federal government say 'nope, we're not paying for it' and let private industry get to work. Conceptually, it would be like railways - economically vital, but nobody (at least in the USA) would ever seriously suggest that they should be owned and operated by the government.
 
I can only imagine the mess if private companies disagree as much on how to build a road as railways did on gauges.

Would there be a standard side of the road to drive on, or would interchanges have to deal with switching from right-to-left side driving if a British designer/company owned a road? It might even lead to cars having steering wheels in the centre of the vehicle if that were the case.

I can see how roads were owned by the post office due to an unusual interpretation of the constitution when it mentions postal roads. Split the post office due to monopoly concerns later on and you have multiple Road companies. Also make every town, enclosed suburb/body corporate own it'd own roads and have farming cooperatives and large companies own the branch connections to the nearest post Road.

This all seems dystopic, but somehow no worse than electric power, water, sewage, railway, phone, etc networks being private. Sure eventually the government will impose standards and oversight to simplify the mess, but only once the whole underlying structure is set in stone.
 
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