Fight Over Transportation Tax
(AJC) — Fulton County mayors have united to fight a new penny sales tax for regional transportation plans, unless neighboring counties kick in extra money for a regional transit system.
A similar battle is brewing in DeKalb County, which along with Fulton has imposed a 1-cent sales tax for two decades to build and maintain MARTA. The trains and buses of the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority have benefited the entire region, Fulton and DeKalb mayors argue, even though no other counties have chipped in.
“This is the only place we have leverage to get the other counties on board,” Sandy Springs Mayor Eva Galambos said. “We are for the one cent, provided the other counties come into an arrangement on a metropolitan transit plan.”
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