Poll Shows Cobb County Prefers Rail
Decatur Metro | June 16, 2011Here’s something to chew on while you wait along the MARTA platform, traveling from Fulton to DeKalb and back again.
Cobb County held a telephone town hall meeting on Tuesday like the one DeKalb held last night, which Allison described in the previous post. And guess what? They showed preference for a rail project over a road project. From the Mayretta Daily Journal…
A slim majority of poll respondents said connecting Cobb County to Atlanta via rail was more important than improving the Windy Hill Road and Interstate 75 intersection, though a quarter said neither of the two options took priority.
The poll was conducted during a telephone town hall regarding next year’s voter referendum for a 10-year, 1 percent sales tax to fund transportation projects in the 10-county metro Atlanta area. More than 16,000 Cobb residents participated.
Sure, pitting a single intersection against an entire rail line is sorta unfair, but still, more could’ve said neither was important, right?
So that “slim majority”. Is that like 51%?
….during the call, a poll asked listeners “What is the most important for transportation investment that could be made in Cobb County?”
Just over 60 percent said connecting Cobb to Atlanta via rail was the highest priority, while 13.5 percent of responders said the county should improve the Windy Hill Road and Interstate 75 intersection. However, 25.5 percent said neither option was the most important. There were no other choices for the poll.
I’ll be damned.
That would be great but I will believe it when I see it.
Cobb is a very different county than it was just 10 years ago.
There is a ton of regional coverage on the referendum here:
http://www.ajc.com/news/transportation-referendum-coverage-919825.html
But if it happens, won’t it encourage more suburban sprawl? Is that what is wanted?
It’s too bad then that rail projects in Cobb (Gwinnett and Perimeter too) might not make the final list since they can’t be completed in 10 years.