Tag Archives: T-SPLOST

Transportation Camp attracts usual suspects to explore transit advances

Date: February 11th, 2013, 7:27 am

Technology is disrupting nearly every aspect of the transportation industry — whether its state-of-the-art robotics revamping the automobile assembly line to a computerized conductor system navigating the railroad tracks or a mobile application providing real-time train and bus locations.

Nearly 250 technologists, planning students, professional experts and other transportation enthusiasts gathered at Georgia Tech for TransportationCamp South, an “unconference” organized by New York City-based Open Plans — a transportation technology and planning startup. Previous launch cities include San Francisco, New York City, Montreal and Washington, DC.
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Posted in Saba Long | Tagged Georgia Department of Transportation, Georgia Port Authority, Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech for TransportationCamp South, MARTA, See Something Say Something, T-SPLOST, technology, Transportation Camp | 5 Comments

Would Jesus vote yes on the T-SPLOST?

Date: July 23rd, 2012, 10:20 am

A conversation with Rhodes Scholar Katharine K. Wilkinson, 29, provoked this question as related to her recent book, “Between God & Green: How Evangelicals are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change” (Oxford University Press).

While the issue of climate change is global, and her book focuses on national politics, Atlanta is where Wilkinson started to become aware of the vast natural resources in the Appalachian foothills and beyond.

Only much later did Wilkinson, an agnostic, begin the see the power and numbers of the people in Atlanta and beyond who call themselves evangelical Christians.

“If you understand American evangelical Christianity, representing at least a quarter of the U.S. population, as the politically and theologically complex, fractious, and ultimately mainstream phenomenon that it is, then you’ll appreciate the nuance and sensitivity with which Katharine Wilkinson navigates her subject,” said a Boston Globe reviewer. “Wilkinson tells a vitally important, even subversive, story.”
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Posted in Atlanta, Michelle Hiskey, Transformation | Tagged Atlanta, T-SPLOST, transportation referendum, transportation sales tax | 3 Comments

GDOT report: Transportation sales tax won’t begin to fix state’s freight systems

Date: February 20th, 2012, 5:37 pm

It turns out that more than $18 billion really doesn’t go as far as it used to.

That’s the amount to be raised within the next decade if voters in July approve the 1 percent sales tax for transportation in each of Georgia’s 12 special tax districts. Even that amount didn’t provide for the majority of road, transit and airport projects initially proposed.

Nor does the sum begin to make a dent in the $18 billion to $20 billion list of upgrades that must be made to the state’s freight handling systems – its highways, railroads, Savannah seaport and airports in Atlanta and Albany, according to a new report from the Georgia Department of Transportation.
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