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Old 06-11-2015, 07:03 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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This guy just can't get enough of himself.

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Despite Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee’s assurances over the past year that the public will decide if a controversial rapid transit bus system is built, the $500 million project can now proceed with a simple majority vote of the county commission.


That detail is embedded in a 110-page transportation planning document that was approved by the commission May 26. Each of the four district commissioners say they thought that the planning document required a public referendum on the system when they voted for it.

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Lee made his first promise for a public BRT referendum at a July 2014 commission meeting, during which the board approved placing the SPLOST tax referendum on ballots last November. Lee tried to assure voters that they could vote in favor of the tax and not worry about the money being used to fund BRT.


“I just want to be clear on something,” Lee said during the July meeting. “My intent, if the board sees fit in the future to consider bringing the (BRT) project forward … it’ll be done in a public environment. It’ll be done — in my recommendation — in a separate election, to be held on its own merit … and be voted on by the citizens of Cobb County … by itself in an election-year ballot.
No matter what your thoughts are on the Braves and BRT, this guy just seems to be a certifiable scumbag. He willed the Braves, now he wills BRT. This is the same style of bravado that landed the Atlanta Area Bravos a home outside of their namesake. He likes to set up scenarios where there is no real chance for anyone to object, it's Tim's way or the busway.


As a potential, but less and less likely, future citizen of Cobb, please vote this man out. Whatever rep Cobb had as a place for better government is being shredded by him regularly. Voting for him again would be like an abused wife begging the cops not to arrest her drunk abusive husband.


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Old 06-11-2015, 07:08 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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I saw him in a meeting about transportation involving the Braves development when I walked into work this morning.
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Old 06-11-2015, 07:56 AM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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Too bad he can't use his "mojo" to push for MARTA HRT.
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Old 06-11-2015, 07:58 AM
 
Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Tricky, alright. I think that's his middle name.
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Old 06-11-2015, 08:02 AM
 
Location: Atlanta - Midtown
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I'm no fan of Lee either, but what other way is there to get much needed rapid transit in Cobb County? If you wait on the voting population of Cobb to bring a BRT system to the county, you're going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
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Old 06-11-2015, 08:06 AM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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I'm no fan of Lee either, but what other way is there to get much needed rapid transit in Cobb County? If you wait on the voting population of Cobb to bring a BRT system to the county, you're going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Except this isn't even real BRT, but a half-ass measure to beef up existing service in one corridor.
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Old 06-11-2015, 08:19 AM
 
Location: Atlanta - Midtown
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Except this isn't even real BRT, but a half-ass measure to beef up existing service in one corridor.
Yeah, I'm trying to hope for the best, but am honestly expecting a half-assed measure as well.
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Old 06-11-2015, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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Except this isn't even real BRT, but a half-ass measure to beef up existing service in one corridor.
Why didn't Cobb County look at the failure of the Queue Jumping Lanes on Memorial Dr before proposing this project?
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Old 06-11-2015, 08:32 AM
 
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Except this isn't even real BRT, but a half-ass measure to beef up existing service in one corridor.
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Yeah, I'm trying to hope for the best, but am honestly expecting a half-assed measure as well.
Same here. Expect minus some of the "hope"
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Old 06-11-2015, 08:36 AM
 
Location: Downtown Marietta
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I'm no fan of Lee either, but what other way is there to get much needed rapid transit in Cobb County? If you wait on the voting population of Cobb to bring a BRT system to the county, you're going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Agree with this. And, honestly, this is how representative government works. We, the constituents, don't get to vote up or down on every single project the county or city undertakes.

Certainly Lee should not have said that a referendum would be required and then backtracked on that. But, honestly, I don't have an issue with there not being a referendum at all. Something needs to be done about transit in this corridor, and, as Frankster said, waiting on the voting population of Cobb, which skews much further to the anti-government, anti-tax wing than does the county's populace as a whole, to approve any kind of transit expansion would probably take quite a while. Building a viable rail network, which I agree would be preferable, would probably take over 10 years and cost several times more what BRT would. So this may be the best compromise possible at this point in time.

For what it's worth, I don't recall referenda being held for the Streetcar or the new Falcons' stadium, either.
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