Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:38 AM
marmar (60,757 posts)
Voters reject plan to boost transit in the gridlocked Atlanta area
Metro Atlantans headed to the polls Tuesday and resoundingly defeated the T-SPLOST by a margin of 63 to 37. For those who campaigned vigorously against it, the vote served as validation of months of effort. A diverse group of T-SPLOST opponents, about 50 in all, gathered at a sports bar in midtown Atlanta to watch the results. The returns soon showed a big defeat for the one percent sales tax increase, a plan that would have raised more than $7 billion for road and transit projects across the metro region over 10 years. .................(more) The complete piece is at: http://pba.org/post/voters-reject-t-splost-opponents-talk-plan-b
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| NightWatcher | Aug 2012 | #1 | |
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Response to marmar (Original post)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:43 AM
NightWatcher (20,411 posts)
1. they then sat on 400N for two hours trying to get home
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Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:52 AM
BlueToTheBone (2,328 posts)
2. I used to show at the Atlanta Mart and I learned first hand
