A group of T-SPLOST opponents are coming to the defense of MARTA after several elected officials, including the governor, have said the transit system’s inefficiencies are partly to blame for the recent T-SPLOST defeat.
The Sierra Club, the DeKalb NAACP, and state Senator Vincent Fort are calling for an “honest” dialogue.
Colleen Kiernan of the Sierra Club says recent remarks by Governor Nathan Deal and state Rep. Mike Jacobs, the chair of the MARTA oversight committee, are counterproductive.
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