More Transit, Please

The Atlanta Regional Commission has delivered a massive wish list of 436 transit and transportation projects to be funded by a new sales tax increase. Ariel Hart reports that the proposal indicates that the region is clamoring for mass transit.

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April 17, 2011, 1:00 PM PDT

By Tim Halbur

The winnowing process will continue until the Regional Commission decides which projects will get the go-ahead in the fall.

Hart reports:

"More than half of the $22.8 billion in formal applications, $13.5 billion, were mass transit projects, compared with $8.5 billion in road projects, according to ARC. An additional list of projects with fuzzier cost estimates adds billions more of both roads and transit. All dollar values in the list still need cleaning up, and in the following weeks ARC officials say they are likely to weed out more overlap between projects, which could bring the figures down significantly."

FULL STORY: Metro Atlanta requests a transit future

Sunday, April 17, 2011 in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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