Transportation tax and MARTA furor arrive at City Hall
Concern over how MARTA’s treated in 2012 referendum continues
The growing debate — and discord — surrounding Georgia’s proposed transportation tax has finally found its way to Atlanta’s City Hall.
Late Monday night, Atlanta City Councilmembers took up a resolution — the same one Fulton and DeKalb commissioners are to consider this week — that urges state lawmakers to iron out issues left unsolved in the House Bill 277, the piece of legislation that allows Georgia voters to decide in 2012 if they want to pay a one-cent sales tax to fund new roads, bridges and transit projects.
Normally, such resolutions don’t generate much discussion. That wasn’t the case last night. With potentially billions of dollars on the line — and uncertainty as to whether voters will approve the measure — the tax has become a sensitive subject.