I'll be voting against the tax...
...but mainly because my county has been already been paying that tax for decades. I don't see why I should pay even more now just so that other other counties can play catch-up.
The HOT lanes are a fiasco, and still they are talking about extending them into downtown and up 75. It's absurd that I should be made to pay to use lanes that I already paid for.
Perhaps with the exception of midtown/downtown, bike lanes are a pipe dream in Atlanta. Most of Atlanta is too hilly for most people to consider bicycles as viable transportation for any meaningful distance. Bicycles will never meaningfully compete with autos in Atlanta.
Atlanta's problem is that they were >25 years behind the ball on planning for growth, and now it's too late. The development that has happened in the last 20 years makes building the roads needed impossible.
What Atlanta needs is a truly regional transportation authority. MARTA needs to be purged and replaced by people who will run with the needs of their customers in mind, instead of the needs of the politicians and its own employees. (MARTA now shows complete contempt for its customers; I rarely use it anymore)
