How government spends your money
This is from Jim Wooten's column today:
The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority is designing a $93 million bus terminal on I-75, just inside I-285. Two points: With projects like this, nobody in state government can be accused of failing to boldly consider “alternatives” to more road capacity. Some alternatives make dollar sense; some don’t. Commuter rail is in the “don’t make sense” category. And two: Don’t use up all that space above the expressways. At some point soon the private sector needs to double-deck the Downtown Connector.So...$93 million for a bus terminal? This is so damn stupid.
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Take the train to the bus--- ride the over priced, surely to be underused commuter train from Lovejoy to Atlanta, transfer to a bus to ride to the bus terminal in the sky then transfer again to get to the Cobb Art Center .... yeah! That'll happen
Posted by: Green Death | November 3, 2006 01:55 PM
I saw a headline for that read something to the tune of, "93 Million Dollar Transit Center Planned." Wow, I thought, for that much money, this must be a revolutionary idea. Nope. A bus terminal. Bus terminal? Seriously? When I attend Georgia State this summer I will ride GAXPRESS from Avalon Park. No terminal needed. I am thinking this will be something like Boston's South Station, if anyone is familiar with that terminal. The difference between Atlanta and Boston: New England is so small that people bus into Boston to use the airport not as much of a big industry here. $93 million could be used for a lot better things...
Posted by: Joshua Patterson | November 3, 2006 03:46 PM