Gridlocked Metro Atlanta poised to defeat tax to improve mass transit

[marmar]

The transportation referendum known as TSPLOST is losing support among Republican voters and in areas inside I-285, according to a WSB-TV poll.

The poll, conducted July 11, found that only 33 percent of metro Atlantans overall support the referendum while 56 percent oppose the measure. Twelve percent remain undecided.

Voters in 10 metro counties, including Cobb, are being asked to approve a 1-percent sales tax that would collect more than $6 billion over the next 10 years for transportation and transit projects. Local governments would get an additional $1 billion for traffic improvements.

The WSB poll, based on 1,050 registered voters, showed that TSPLOST is losing support inside Fulton and DeKalb counties for the first time. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://kennesaw.patch.com/articles/most-in-metro-atlanta-oppose-tsplost-poll-says-a6d8428b

[Turbineguy]

1. The repubs have it figured out.

If you collapse the economy, traffic volumes will drop. Problem solved! There, what was so difficult about that? You see, there are simple solutions to complex problems. And "Collapse the Economy" fits on a bumpersticker with room left over for the elephant!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Or there could have been a whispering campaign like the one that defeated

the first proposal for a north-south light rail line in Portland: it said that the line would bring black gang members down to the southern suburbs to recruit white kids.

My reaction upon hearing that was that many of the kids in the white areas in question were already getting into delinquency quite nicely on their own, thank you very much.

But the whispering campaign still worked.