Getting what we pay for

Speaking of the transportation tax, there’s a brief transportation priorities survey on the Atlanta Regional Roundtable’s site, available to take until May 15. (If that link doesn’t work, there’s another one at the top of the front page of the ARR site)

The Atlanta Regional Roundtable is the group of 21 officials from the 10-county Atlanta region that will choose the roster of transportation projects to be funded by the one percent sales tax we’ll vote on next year. Since the tax will be voted up or down based at least partially on the content of the list of projects, the Roundtable wants to assemble a list that reflects things that people really care about seeing get built.

So, when you have a spare five minutes, take the survey, and then check out the interactive map that can tell you the cost, time frame, purpose and requesting agency for prospective transportation projects in your neighborhood.

2 Comments so far

  1. Adam (unregistered) on May 3rd, 2011 @ 4:49 pm

    Gee, I hope they widen more roads, lay more asphalt, and build more
    toll lanes.


  2. Tamra (tlt0912) on May 4th, 2011 @ 12:45 pm

    Phrases like “roadway capacity improvements” and “operational
    improvements” do crop up a lot in the project list as it stands
    now, but I also counted more than 40 unique occurrences of the word
    “transit” and about 20 unique occurences of the phrase “bicycle and
    pedestrian”



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