... purchasing that toll road are Cintra SA and Macquarie Infrastructure Group (link). The first is Spanish, the second is Australian. To those like Reason that doesn't matter: all that counts is that they've got the money and concerns about foreign countries controlling vital infrastructure are completely unimportant.
Note also that both companies were involved in the TransTexas Corridor, with...
... with the Spanish conglomerate Cintra. The latter company will operate the Trans-Texas Corridor, and one of Macquarie's subsidiaries has just bought a chain of 40 small Texas newspapers, some of which were critical of the TTC. Dallas Morning News President Jeremy L. Halbreich started the chain, and he'll stay on in a management capacity.
Now, certainly, this could just be a decision based on the...