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Politics Trumps Reducing Traffic Congestion

The Atlanta Transportation Tax: Too Much for Too Little June 5, 2012 By Wendell Cox “The measure is highly tilted towards transit spending. Sadly, this would do virtually nothing to reduce Atlanta’s traffic or its travel times.” “…less than five percent of work trip travel is by transit, the tax measure devotes more than 50

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These days, the governor drives Georgia road planning

On June 6, 2012, Joe Earle, Editor of the “Reporter Newspapers” provided this preface to the main article. “Dunwoody resident Bob Dallas writes an occasional column for Reporter Newspapers and www.ReporterNewspapers.net called “Dallas On Transportation” or “DOT.” Dallas headed the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety under former Gov. Sonny Perdue. He will answer questions about

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Pro-transportation tax group gets it mostly wrong

PolitiFact actually got one right, well sort of.  Their analysis is kind of like a baseball ump’s strike zone.  You never know what you’ll get.  But, hey, decide for yourself. On April 16, 2012, Citizens for Transportation Mobility published a supplemental advertisement in “Georgia Trend” magazine.  They claimed, “…metro Atlanta will create or support an

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T-SPLOST Won’t Work

Too Little Congestion Relief T-SPLOST is weak and late on congestion relief.  Assuming drivers will take trains and buses is naïve at best and dishonest at worst.  Congestion relief requires establishing a grid,   T-SPLOST doesn’t do that. What T-SPLOST Does T-SPLOST is designed to bail our MARTA, expand wasteful public transit, fix a few expensive

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