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By Robert Butler* The recent occurrence of the violent reactions to the payment of tolls for the A1 motorway in northern Albania brings to the forefront the whole question of who should pay for road transport infrastructure; the provision of new roads, their management, operations and maintenance. In the past all forms of transport infrastructure was predominantly built, owned, and operated by government institutions and departments. None of them more so than road networks. Roads have always been the original form of communication and as such their development and usage has been assumed as an indubitable right of the…