The Real Issue is Travel Times

Wendell Cox, public policy expert, former member of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission who has also worked on transportation projects in the Atlanta area, says transit won’t solve Atlanta’s traffic problems.

“Transit accounts for barely 1 percent of metropolitan travel. Yet the roundtable plan would commit more than 30 times that on transit. Nearly a quarter of this would be spent on repairing the MARTA system which, if it were sustainable, would have no need of new taxes.

“Metro Atlanta needs a vision that focuses on objectives. This means one that reduces peak-hour travel delays as much as possible per million dollars of new taxation. How much is spent on transit or highways is not the issue. The issue is reducing metro Atlanta’s travel times to encourage greater economic growth, job creation and poverty elimination.”

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