See our previous post for: I don’t trust government (to either pick the projects, spend the money or deliver the projects) & I don’t support any new taxes / now is not the time to be raising taxes.
This week's question/issue: I don’t like the project list / Let’s not pass this now. Let’s come back in 2 years when we have a shot at getting a better project list
Answer:
- We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. This entire effort has literally been six years in the making. The business and civic communities got involved at that time because our traffic issues were costing us jobs and our quality of life – we started to see a pattern of companies unwilling to locate or create jobs here because we had no plan to address our traffic. And the regions that we compete with for economic growth – namely Denver, Dallas, Houston and increasingly Charlotte, are leapfrogging their transportation infrastructure ahead of us and using that to their competitive advantage. We don’t have time to wait – our future depends on it. Remember we are 48th in the nation in terms of transportation funding!
- This is a very good project list – was nine months in the making and was developed with input from over 200,000 citizens. No future list will be perfect either.
- Leaders like the Gov, Lt Gov, Mayor and others have already publicly said if this fails, they won’t be addressing this again anytime soon. And if they do, it won’t be with the unprecedented local decision making and citizen input that we’ve seen over the last year.
- Untie Atlanta: Advocacy Group
- Atlanta Regional Commission: Regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for the 10-county area
- Transform Metro Atlanta: Educational Group
- T-SPLOST.com: Fact sheet & Project list
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