News: Roundup Of Reaction To Atlanta Transit & Highway Tax Vote
August 2, 2012
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| Atlanta Reaction - A sampling of the reaction to the defeat of a proposal that would have raised sales taxes by a penny to fund highway and transit improvements. |
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Atlanta's Bad Traffic Situation Is About to Get Worse DC.Streetsblog Well, the Atlanta region has spoken. The proposed one-cent sales tax hike to support $7.15 billion in spending on transit and roads was roundly defeated Tuesday, with 62 percent opposing. Though approved by Atlanta city voters, none of the 10 counties considering the measure gave it the thumbs up, according to unofficial results.... Read On |
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Atlanta's future? Tied up in knots The Naked City With Tuesday's defeat of a proposed 1-cent sales tax for regional transportation needs, including both transit and highway improvements, the outlook for the huge metro region's future looks grim.... Read On |
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Three-Cornered Politics CNU Blog Yesterday, the voters of ten Atlanta counties voted "no" in a referendum on a regional sales tax to expand both roads and public transit. The new tax was favored by the region's business establishment, and opposed by groups as varied as the Sierra Club and local Tea Party groups.... Read On |
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Tea Party Groups Claim Victory The Hill Tea Party groups in Georgia are taking credit for the defeat of an $8 billion transportation tax in Atlanta on Tuesday.... Read On |
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Failure Of The Transit-Roads Sales Tax Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space Generally, the Center for Transportation Excellence, an organization that provides support for transit funding initiatives, finds that about 70% of pro-transit tax and bond referendums are successful, which is a pretty good rate of success, especially given the fact that most people in the US do not have great familiarity with transit, think it's mostly a social service for people who can't afford a car, and don't want to pay more taxes.... Read On |
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What's Next For Transportation In Atlanta? The New Republic When it comes to transformative infrastructure, there's no bigger tool for metro areas than local referendums. These regional votes give metropolitan areas an opportunity to sidestep the business-as-usual approach in Washington and initiate their own local vision--and to do so with resources typically counted in the billions. From major rail investments in Denver to a new central park in Oklahoma City, referendums are a vital way to reshape our metropolitan economies.... Read On |
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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal's Plan B Atlanta Journal Constitution On Tuesday morning, as metro Atlanta voters hurled an $8 million sales tax campaign into the trash, Gov. Nathan Deal held what aides called his first session with top transportation officials to discuss Plan B.... Read On |
