T-SPLOST and Ga 400 tolls

Letter to -AJC 8-5-2012

T-SPLOST and GA400 Tolls

It's not surprising that the T-SPLOST failed.  Asking people to tax themselve is normally not a good idea, especially when so many people have been stirred up by the negative publicity of nay-sayers  and the anti-government crowd as Kevin Riley so accurately pointed out in his editorial.

Now we will have to address and fund specific local projects without the benefits that a federally backed metro approach would have given us.   As a Roswell resident I suggest that Governor Deal reverse his stance on the Ga 400 tolls and leave them in place. Use the money to fund only the Ga-400   interchange improvements that were built into the T-SPLOST.  That way those of us who live in the northern suburbs would get some relief on one of the busiest roads in the nation. 

Tom