Rep. Steve Davis blogged his thoughts on ways to improve traffic in Georgia:

We cannot fix our transportation problems by simply throwing money at it. Why is it that we are talking about tax increases but not efficiency issues? Why are we not focusing on the never ending cycle of planning, designing, consulting, and re-planning? Why are we not focusing on the duplication of services throughout the transportation network of “Alphabet Soup”? Does anyone else believe we can save the State of Georgia money be simplifying the process? Could we save money by removing some of the hurdles this bureaucracy creates? Could we eliminate some of these organizations, agencies, committees, authorities, advisors, consultants, and re-invent our Department of Transportation as the leading force on transportation issues in Georgia?
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To directly address funding we could take a straight forward look at the motor fuel tax structure. It is overly complicated and widely misunderstood. Many Georgians do not know we tax motor fuel twice at the State level, once as an excise tax and again as a prepaid sales tax on motor fuel. We are also one of very few states that taxes at the distributor level with thousands of taxing points, we could increase efficiency by taxing at the terminal level just like the federal government. This would reduce our taxing points to less than 40 points therefore increasing collection efficiency which could save the state over $25 million a year by itself! Furthermore, we should immediately re-dedicate the portion of the prepaid sales tax on motor fuel going into the General Budget to its intended purpose which is transportation funding. I am not positive but I believe the amount going to the General budget is upwards of $200 million! You can view my other ideas for changes to the motor fuel structure in HB 293 which I called “GUTS” for the Gas Unification and Tax Simplification Act of 2007.