How will the infrastructure bill help the ATL? (Atlanta, Savannah: college, tax)

[arjay57]

Sounds like there's a chance there could be more transit down to Clayton and along Campbellton Road.

Unfortunately I don't see anything specific about flooding the area with sleek, modern energy-efficient buses, but maybe MARTA could carve out, say, 10% of that $923 million.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

$1.4 billion

The bill includes nearly $1.4 billion over five years for public transportation in Georgia, including $923 million for metro Atlanta.

MARTA CEO Jeffrey Parker said the additional money would have a big impact on the regional transit agency. Two projects that could benefit: proposed transit lines in Clayton County and along Campbellton Road in Atlanta. Voters in those communities have approved local funding for those and other projects, but Parker said federal funding would be crucial.

“We’re not going to be successful if we can’t get federal funding,” he said.


Full article...What’s in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill for Georgia
https://www.ajc.com/politics/whats-i...CD6VTUCIXOJSU/

[Pemgin]

It probably won't, like that tax we voted for a few years ago. What happened to that money?

[Need4Camaro]

My imagination is they will use the money on improving roads around the state, primarily to serve the trucking industry while Atlanta metro will continue to get HOT lanes.

[architect77]

Originally Posted by Pemgin

It probably won't, like that tax we voted for a few years ago. What happened to that money?

That money has been accruing, but they admitted years ago that it wouldn’t fund even half of the listed projects. Probably some has been absconded.

If the 1,2 trillion only $110 billion was supposedly for roads and bridges.

North Carolina is getting $9.5 billion of it so Georgia should get the same roughly if it has several projects identified and flushed out ready to commence.

[T Block]

For all I've said about city buses with steering tongues in dedicated bus lanes and for all I've said about commuter buses being given sole usage of HOV lanes, I have to also say that commuter rail is possible.

The commuter rail must be elevated beside the railroad tracks because of frequent road crossings. But consider Lovejoy to East Point where a change of trains to MARTA would be necessary. Or consider Newnan to College Park where a change of trains to MARTA would be necessary. That's an example of an affordable system because it does not have to match the MARTA system. It could be not light-rail but not heavy-rail but possibly medium-rail.

[beach43ofus]

Less than 1/2 of the infrastructure bill is earmarked toward infrastructure, so there's a lot less than you think there is to go around. Also, they'll distrubute most of the cash to the East, and West Coasts.

Georgia will get some crumbs, probably mostly going to prop up MARTA, since it loses so much money. The airport might get some of the crumbs too, maybe the port in Savannah get some too.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

Less than 1/2 of the infrastructure bill is earmarked toward infrastructure, so there's a lot less than you think there is to go around. Also, they'll distrubute most of the cash to the East, and West Coasts.

Georgia will get some crumbs, probably mostly going to prop up MARTA, since it loses so much money. The airport might get some of the crumbs too, maybe the port in Savannah get some too.

Please list the profitable U.S. Public Transit systems.

[cranberrysaus]

Originally Posted by JMatl

Please list the profitable U.S. Public Transit systems.

Zero in North America.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio