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Originally Posted by pmkatl
Hello! Long-time voyeur, first-time poster. Out of curiosity, did anybody see what happened to SB 313 (bill to simply allow a referendum for 1/2 penny sales tax to fund MARTA expansion in Fulton/DeKalb) the day after it was introduced? Apparently it was assigned to the State and Local Government Operations Committee (nicknamed SLO-GO; no I'm not making this up) instead of the Senate Transportation Committee. To boot, this committee is headed by a "skeptical Senate chairman", as reported by the AJC. Is this really not even going to make it to referendum? Seriously? I've lived here for almost 12 years and have very low expectations of our reactionary state leadership. However, I actually thought enough of the business community was behind this to at least force them to allow a vote. Does anybody have any further insight on this matter?
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That's the frustrating thing about it. The business community has been pushing for action for at least decade to do something about transportation in Atlanta but it seems but the state
leadership office holders cannot see beyond the next election. I guess Atlanta used up all of its visionary leadership in the last century.