The whole attempt to stick this to the citizens was based on lies. 52% of the plunder was going to MARTA. MARTA does nothing to help traffic congestion in the surrounding counties and damn little in the city itself.
Interesting in that the polls showed many making an association between expansion of public transport and increasing the reach of gangs of thugs. Once again, voters aren’t stupid and can connect cause and effect, even if liberals want to pretend no link exists.
The graph of city densities at traffictruth.net told the tale. More rail is insanity in Atlanta just because of that, and they weren’t even going to be building much new rail, just maintaining what they have with a huge new tax.
Go to the 4th slide here.
http://www.traffictruth.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DebatePanel.slides.pdf
Anyone with half a brain who understands 1/10th of what this means knows rail is a loser.