Post by pavel on Jan 25, 2016 0:55:29 GMT -6
Distribution of road-project funding draws scrutiny from Georgia lawmakers
ATLANTA — As the echoes fade from the news conference in which the governor and other state leaders announced a 10-year, $10-billion road-improvement plan, lawmakers from around the state are taking a closer look.
The governor, House speaker, lieutenant governor and chairmen of the House and Senate transportation committees stood before the media the first week of the legislative session to ballyhoo the coming results of a tax package enacted in 2015. The boost in gasoline taxes and new fees on electric cars and hotel stays is politically risky for Republicans, and the leaders were providing the political cover they had promised last year when soliciting passage.
The most expensive projects that the Web site highlights, which are along interstate highways, total $14.06 billion. Of that, $11.75 billion is for metro Atlanta, or 84 percent.
Only two of those large projects are outside Atlanta, an improved interchange at Interstates 16 and 95 in Savannah for $244 million and dedicated truck lanes on I-75 north of Macon for $2 billion.
Read more: chronicle.augusta.com/news/2016-01-24/distribution-road-project-funding-draws-scrutiny-georgia-lawmakers?v=1453682589
ATLANTA — As the echoes fade from the news conference in which the governor and other state leaders announced a 10-year, $10-billion road-improvement plan, lawmakers from around the state are taking a closer look.
The governor, House speaker, lieutenant governor and chairmen of the House and Senate transportation committees stood before the media the first week of the legislative session to ballyhoo the coming results of a tax package enacted in 2015. The boost in gasoline taxes and new fees on electric cars and hotel stays is politically risky for Republicans, and the leaders were providing the political cover they had promised last year when soliciting passage.
The most expensive projects that the Web site highlights, which are along interstate highways, total $14.06 billion. Of that, $11.75 billion is for metro Atlanta, or 84 percent.
Only two of those large projects are outside Atlanta, an improved interchange at Interstates 16 and 95 in Savannah for $244 million and dedicated truck lanes on I-75 north of Macon for $2 billion.
Read more: chronicle.augusta.com/news/2016-01-24/distribution-road-project-funding-draws-scrutiny-georgia-lawmakers?v=1453682589