The Real Issue is Travel Times
Wendell Cox, public policy expert, former member of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission who has also worked on transportation projects in the Atlanta area, says transit won’t solve Atlanta’s traffic problems. “Transit accounts for barely 1 percent of metropolitan travel. Yet the roundtable plan would commit more than 30 times that on transit. Nearly
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
Two Developments Must Occur Before Passing a Sales Tax
MARTA chief, Beverly Scott, on the TIA: “Most notably, three developments need to occur. A transit governance structure with regional control must past the legislature this session. The MARTA Act needs to be revised to allow for flexibility on how the agency spends its sales tax revenue — removing the restriction that 50 percent be
Some projects might not be feasible even if voters approved a regional sales [tax] this July
From AJC, April 3, 2012 “MARTA Service Cuts Loom” “MARTA’s Gen Manager Beverly Scott] and other officials said the current financial projection left open the possibility that some projects might not be feasible even if voters approved a regional sales [tax] this July that has $600 million for MARTA for maintenance and upgrades for the
MARTA chief warns of $2.3 billion in unfunded maintenance needs
From AJC, September 26, 2011 “We do not have an answer of how it’s going to be funded,” Scott said, adding that if the regional transportation plan is rejected, the agency’s maintenance costs would spike to $2.9 billion, as the proposed plan includes $600 million specifically for taking care of an aging MARTA system. Read
T-SPLOST Related Transit Study Seems Aimed at Avoiding Inconvenient Results
If the T-SPLOST is approved, and after the projects are built, will you have a shorter commute time? The ARC recently admitted that the answer is NO. Instead, the ARC says that “alleviating traffic congestion” is defined as increasing the number of people who can hypothetically reach a given point within 45 minutes. Paying $6.14
Debunking the Myths: Part 1 – Congestion
Debunking the Myths: Part 1 – Congestion The myth: building rail transit will take cars off the road and relieve congestion. This is the oft-quoted rationale for building rail transit. It sounds good. Anyone who is stuck in the logjam of GA400, I-75 or I-85 hears this myth with great anticipation. Getting everyone else
