Will spending huge sums of money on roads and bridges bring economic success?

By LEE BALLARD — Special to “The Telegraph”

“The competitiveness initiative report reveals that transportation’s role is but a small piece of a larger, complex economic development puzzle all begging for funding. The point being, the economy and job creation can happen without cycling $19 billion through the GDOT, the T-SPLOST projects overseer, money maze. Millions will be spent on “consultants” and “program management.”

“If the con job works, $19 billion will be removed from other areas of the economy to be cycled through questionable transportation projects. The invoice will be presented to Georgians whose per capita income is $5,000 below the national average and whose tax bite per capita is $3,500.”

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