{"id":664,"date":"2012-07-18T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/t-splost-losing-statewide-but-not-in-region-11.html"},"modified":"2012-07-18T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:26:56","slug":"t-splost-losing-statewide-but-not-in-region-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/t-splost-losing-statewide-but-not-in-region-11.html","title":{"rendered":"T-SPLOST losing statewide, but not in Region 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

It sounds like good news for T-SPLOST opponents, until you look at the details.<\/p>\n

Eve Chen wrote for 11Alive yesterday, 11Alive Poll | T-SPLOST would not pass today<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a> Among likely voters surveyed by SurveyUSA for 11Alive News, across the state, 48% said they would vote against T-SPLOST and 36% said they would vote for it if the primary were today; 16% were still undecided. The margin of error was 3.4%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But look at the details.<\/a> The big No regions are Atlanta metro and northwards (see Question 1<\/a>). In our Region 11 it’s Yes 41%, No 33%, Not Certain 26% so there’s work to be done. Do we want to end up stuck with projects we don’t need after Atlanta votes down its region in a referendum that was designed to pass in Atlanta?<\/p>\n

My favorite is question 6:<\/p>\n

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How likely is it that the state government would properly handle the funds if the transportation tax increase is passed?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In region 11, Very 17%, Somewhat 24%, Not Very 25%, Not At All 21%, Not Sure 14%. Trust problem<\/a>, GDOT?<\/p>\n

And nobody is buying the scare tactics. See Question 4, for which every region says by around 2 to 1 that traffic would stay about the same without T-SPLOST. Question 3 indicates few even think T-SPLOST would improve traffic. We also know a Plan B is possible.<\/a> How about a Plan B including public transportation for south Georgia to help people get to work?<\/a><\/p>\n

-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It sounds like good news for T-SPLOST opponents, until you look at the details. Eve Chen wrote for 11Alive yesterday, 11Alive Poll | T-SPLOST would not pass today Among likely voters surveyed by SurveyUSA for 11Alive News, across the state, 48% said they would vote against T-SPLOST and 36% said they would vote for it […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,14,809,8,2,20,21,22,1177,3,449],"tags":[2124,8736,8717,8704,8805,8701,8699,8702,8710,12,7,2127,2125,8711,8712,2123,2126,8822,1168,8700,8767,6],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-economy","category-gdot","category-georgia","category-government","category-law","category-planning","category-politics","category-t-splost","category-transparency","category-transportation","tag-11alive","tag-activism","tag-community","tag-economy","tag-gdot","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mass-transit","tag-plan-b","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-poll","tag-public-transportation","tag-t-splost","tag-traffic","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-aI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}