Bus Lanes Ahead

AJC 6/20/18 page A1 article “Highway transit line gets a $100M boost reports that State funds will go to creating a 16 mile bus lane on GA 400 from I-285 to McFarland Parkway in Alpharetta. This will create an empty lane with empty buses on GA 400 that will eventually be converted to toll lanes.  The playbook was written with HOV lanes that didn’t work, but did convert nicely to toll lanes decades later.

Bus service should not be provided by government. Greyhound would do a much better job and wouldn’t require dedicated lanes or tax subsidies. Tax subsidies for public transit is nuts.

AJC 6/21/18 page B2 article, “State’s transit expansion set as lure for Amazon” reports that Amazon may prefer Alpharetta as the location for HQ2 if they come to Atlanta.

But Amazon now needs to calculate the cost of collecting sales taxes for on-line sales that may eventually be added by the Georgia legislature.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader