Transit advocates are pushing for Clayton County to become the first county other than Fulton and DeKalb to help pay for MARTA. They’re getting a boost with the election of two new county commissioners.
Since metro Atlanta’s T-SPLOST was defeated in July, the Sierra Club, Citizens for Progressive Transit, Friends of Clayton Transit, and others have lobbied for a MARTA referendum in Clayton as early as November.
Former police chief Jeff Turner, who last week beat Clayton’s incumbent county chairman in a runoff, is urging the same.
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