Georgia Sierra Club: Voters Should Say ‘No’ to TSPLOST
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The Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club, an environmental nonprofit organization, is encouraging Georgians to vote against the proposed 1 percent transportation sales tax or TSPLOST during the July 31 referendum.
“This project list is primarily a business-as-usual sprawl- inducing road program,” said Georgia chapter director Colleen Kiernan according to a Sierra Club press release. “We support Plan B -- a fix-it-first road strategy and a project list that emphasizes transit expansion and improvement.”
Though the TSPLOST project list does include transit projects, the Sierra Club argues TSPLOST is “first and foremost a road building initiative.”
The Sierra Club maintains the transit projects included in the initiative are “vaguely defined and underfunded.”
“We hope Atlanta can follow the example of Seattle, defeat the current proposal and get right to work on Plan B,” stated Kiernan. “Other funding options that should be considered include restructuring the gas tax, charging more for parking, and an expanded regional transit agency. If our leaders fully embrace transit as the centerpiece of a transformative vision for the region’s future, Atlanta can take its place among other forward-looking metropolitan areas that have positioned themselves for enduring success in the 21st century.”
For more information, visit the Georgia Sierra Club website.
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North Georgia Weather
5:12 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
Well.. at least they want us to vote against it, even if it is for all the wrong reasons! Funny how different people see things differently!
Kristi Reed
8:43 am on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
I did not expect the Sierra Club to come out against TSPLOST. It is funny that very politically different groups and individuals could land on the same side of this issue.
M.K. Osborne
5:15 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
A no is indeed a no regardless .
R++ - One of the famous "Dacula Crew"
7:27 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
No to T-SPLOST
And NO to an "an expanded regional transit agency"
Let's collapse the branches of GDOT/SRTA we currently have and not add yet a 3rd arm to the monster…
Jimmy Orr
4:01 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
First order of business is to vote NO to TSPLOST on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. The next order of business is to let Donna Sheldon know that we do not need another layer of bureaucray in state government as was proposed via the creation of a regional transit authority during the 2012 session of the Georgia General Assembly. The Act to create the regional transit authority was an Act, thank goodness, that did not get enacted. Should the House (or Senate) introduce another bill to create a regional transit authority in the 2013 session, once again, do your part to ascertain that same will be an Act that will not get enacted.