Will Clayton County Come to MARTA’s Aid?
Decatur Metro | August 29, 2012Interesting developments in Clayton County with two new county commissioners who support putting a referendum before county residents to join Fulton and DeKalb in contributing to the penny sales tax, which supports MARTA.
WABE reports that new commissioners Jeff Turner and Shana Rooks support the measure. This is in sharp contrast to the two recently ousted incumbents who were opposed to such a measure.
A majority of Clayton’s five commissioners would have to support a measure to get it onto the November ballot. Since the defeat of T-SPLOST last month, transit advocates have been lobbying Clayton to join MARTA.
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Be a lot cooler if they did…
Second Dazed and Confused reference I’ve seen on DM this week. Good stuff. Kudos for keeping Wooderson alive and well. Although I don’t think he’d fit in in Clayton County.
Clayton County’s plan for a bus service to downtown was one of the reasons I chose not to support the T-SPLOST. I couldn’t understand why I should pay an additional 1% sales tax so they could get a bus service, when they could choose to be part of MARTA. It just didn’t make sense to me.
It is very interesting that a county that rejected MARTA in the 70s now wants in. Then again, Clayton is not the same demographically. I guarantee you Gwinnett will do this within 10 years or so with its own demographic changes.