Cascade Hosts Transportation Sales Tax Session
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The city of Atlanta is hosting a series of information sessions on the regional transportation referendum this week, and tonight's event for southwest Atlanta begins at 6 pm at Cascade United Methodist Church.
On July 31, 2012, voters within the 10-county Atlanta metropolitan area will decide whether to fund local and regional transportation projects through a regional transportation referendum, known as T-SPLOST.
The Georgia state economist has estimated total revenues from the referendum to be $7.2 billion over a 10-year period. The city is expected to receive a little over $9.0 million per year for 10 years, or about $94.0 million total, to spend on local projects.
Besides the public having a chance to comment on the referendum to city officials, Patch invites you to share your thoughts on the proposed transportation sales tax on our special Facebook page devoted exclusively to the issue.
john pavlin
8:03 am on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I will be voting no. The DOT has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars over the years and
by voting no you're telling them that this is over. Nine million a year to the city? That can hardly build a bridge. The city residents will be paying the bulk of rural georgia's good ole boys projects.
Matt McW
3:54 pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The proposed penny sales tax will generate approximately $6.14 billion to support transportation projects within the 10-county metro area. Other areas in the state have their own project lists they will fund through the funds raised by a penny sales tax in their respective regions. The $6.14 billion project list includes a mixture of road and transit projects - critically, it includes approximately $3.2 billion to support and expand transit in the 10-county region.
Bakari Height
11:24 am on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I will vote yes. We as citizens must realize that eventually someone's going to have to pay to fix all this stuff. We as Metro Atlantans act like children when we get taxed and even when they install HOT lanes because we believe everything in life should be free. WRONG. We have a golden opportunity to fix our transportation infrastructure to the tune of over billions of dollars for TRANSIT PROJECTS! This is glorious news for such a car dependent area, and the new transit prospects will surely bring in jobs for the unemployed. Please guys!!! Look at the bright side of this opportunity instead of looking at it as another SPLOST! VOTE YES!
Neil Beresford
3:08 pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I will vote Yes. While I believe that the project list in not the best, it is important to vote yes for this because our economic future rely on this. In an effort to keep Metro Atlanta prosperous, we have to do something about our transportation issues. Yes the state of Georgia is a good ole boy system and it does everything to stifle the city of Atlanta and MARTA, but if we as residents vote NO to this, then we are voting NO to new jobs, NO to better infrastructure and we are allow those that currently run the state to win (which is what they want). One way we can get better paying jobs is to fix our transportation system, so that corporations can move headquarters to the city and we also need to fund public transportation so that we can get to these jobs. In life we all have choices, the choices you make today affects you tomorrow, don't waste this opportunity by being arrogant and racially motivated, all you are doing is shooting your self in the foot.