Like schools and hospitals, public roads and bridges are public goods. It's a government's responsibility to provide public goods.
While a government may contract private firms to supply goods and services in order to create and complete public projects, engaging private investors as big partners is not beneficial to a nation.
Those private investors will want to maximize returns on their investments even at the expense of the consumers of public goods. This is exactly what's happening with the Berbice River Bridge.
The big private partners are calling the shots. The PPP/C government is upholding those partners' selfish interests in not wanting to reduce the tolls.
Who are the private partners with big shares in the bridge? Bobby Ramroop's empire is one of them. And it's evident that the Ramroop outfit intends to rip off the bridge authority as it is ripping off the Georgetown Public Hospital by monopolizing the supply of extra-high-priced drugs.
In my opinion, the parliamentary opposition parties are defending the interests of the traveling public in demanding the reduction of the bridge tools. And that's a good thing.