{"id":649,"date":"2012-07-22T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/tsplost-there-are-ways-to-get-more-road-bang-for-buck.html"},"modified":"2012-07-22T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:44:23","slug":"tsplost-there-are-ways-to-get-more-road-bang-for-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/tsplost-there-are-ways-to-get-more-road-bang-for-buck.html","title":{"rendered":"TSPLOST &mdash; There are ways to get more road \u2018bang\u2019 for buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Vote-NO-on-T-Splost-Region-11\/404670406242534\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"    class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017615abc00c970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017615abc00c970c-pi.jpg\" \/><\/a> MJDOnline editorialized today, <a href=\"http:\/\/mdjonline.com\/view\/full_story\/19508840\/article-The-TSPLOST---There-are-ways-to-get-more-road-%E2%80%98bang%E2%80%99-for-buck?instance=lead_story_left_column\"> The TSPLOST \u2014 There are ways to get more road \u2018bang\u2019 for buck<\/a>. Most of it is about Cobb County, but some of it may sound familiar:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>THOSE PUSHING the TSPLOST have bungled the job despite their gargantuan $8 million war chest. They have muddled their message (is it congestion relief or a jobs program?) and even managed to fumble the project list. Cobb voters don&#39;t know whether they&#39;re voting for a rail line or a bus line. And even though the proposal now specifies the latter, the overwhelming suspicion is that if the TSPLOST passes they&#39;ll be stuck paying and paying and paying for the former instead.<\/p>\n<p>Better to vote down this TSPLOST and hope and pray that it also fails region-wide, than possibly come back in two years with an improved project list that can get the public&#39;s buy-in. As it is, the bulk of the Cobb projects on the current list would likely be on a future local Cobb road SPLOST list if there were no such thing as a regional TSPLOST. Which begs another question: Why should Cobb abdicate control over its road program to the Atlanta Regional Commission or a regional roundtable in the first place? Who knows better than Cobb residents what our transportation needs are?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think? Does GDOT in Atlanta know better than we do what we need around here?<\/p>\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MJDOnline editorialized today, The TSPLOST \u2014 There are ways to get more road \u2018bang\u2019 for buck. Most of it is about Cobb County, but some of it may sound familiar: THOSE PUSHING the TSPLOST have bungled the job despite their gargantuan $8 million war chest. 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