If T-SPLOST passes, it’s expected to generate about $6 billion dollars for metro Atlanta transportation projects over the next 10 years. But some residents aren’t convinced state officials will handle the money well. Others, like Glen Patrick, who relies on MARTA, aren’t sure the tax will end after the 10-year period.
“We all know they’ll say one thing and do another,” he says, “Or they’ll constantly raise the fare every six months or so forth to possibly extend that tax.”
Some of that uncertainty may stem from former Governor Sonny Perdue’s pledge to end the tolls on Georgia 400 once part of the highway was paid off. In 2010, the then-governor instead decided to extend the tolls to pay for improvement projects.
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