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Topic: Georgia State Route 400
September 30, 2022 • Commentary
Toll Roads: A Solution to Metro Atlanta’s Traffic Nightmare
A necessary part of the solution to Atlanta's traffic problem is creating more toll roads.
May 3, 2019
Still Asking for Whom Georgia’s Roads are Tolled?
By Benita M. Dodd The toll lanes are coming! The toll lanes are coming! Despite a lengthy history of tolling in Georgia, many current residents appear intimidated or uninformed about […]
July 20, 2018
Bus Rapid Transit: Fast, Flexible, Forward-thinking
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s Bus Rapid Transit plan for SR 400 is a breath of fresh air amid stale and misguided transit proposals for the metro Atlanta region. By Benita […]
February 23, 2018
Move Transit Policy in the Right Direction
By Benita M. Dodd When the CEO of the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority resigned last year, he left MARTA in a good place. The agency was in the black. […]
August 11, 2017
Friday Facts: August 11, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear […]
August 4, 2017
Transit Needs a Ticket to Transparency
Someone needs to step up and ask the tough questions on transit By Benita M. Dodd In March 2017, the Georgia House of Representatives voted to establish a Georgia House […]
February 3, 2017
Georgia’s New Toll Lanes Help ‘Reverse’ Traffic Congestion
By Benita M. Dodd In a milestone event that occurred quietly on Saturday, January 28 Georgia entered the ranks of the few, the proud, the innovative states as a 12-mile […]
October 17, 2016
Atlanta Business Chronicle Quotes Foundation on Toll Lane Network
Dave Williams of The Atlanta Business Chronicle quotes Foundation Vice President Benita Dodd extensively in an article in the October 14-20, 2016, edition about the express toll lanes under construction […]
March 21, 2016
Transit Funding a Step in the Right Direction
Atlanta-focused transportation component has positives and negatives. By Baruch Feigenbaum In 2015, the Georgia General Assembly passed the Transportation Funding Act, dedicating substantial existing resources from the general fund to […]
March 18, 2016
Friday Facts: March 18, 2016
It’s Friday! Then and Now: In 1991, the year the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was established, a 10-minute long distance call cost $3.30. Today, a long distance call costs … […]
February 12, 2016
Government Trails, Technology Triumphs in Transportation Policy
By Benita M. Dodd A Georgia Senate committee heard this week from proponents and foes of a sales tax increase to fund public transportation projects including an 11.9-mile MARTA heavy […]
February 11, 2016
Senior Fellow Baruch Feigenbaum Testifies at Senate Committee Hearing on MARTA
For one MARTA heavy-rail expansion we could provide 20 high quality bus rapid transit expansions. The Georgia Senate State and Local Government Operations Committee, chaired by Sen. John Albers, held […]
February 4, 2016
Caution Recommended on Sales Tax Increase for Rail Transit
A new quarter-penny sales tax for transit could build one heavy-rail extension that would lock up transit funding and lock in an aging technology for the foreseeable future and take […]
January 28, 2016
Atlanta Business Chronicle Quotes Foundation on Ga. Transportation
” … putting more buses in managed lanes would be far more cost-effective.” A January 22, 2016 article by Dave Williams in The Atlanta Business Chronicle quotes Foundation Vice President […]
December 19, 2014
Transit Should Stay off Tracks and on the Road
This legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly is expected to tackle transportation reform, with many hoping lawmakers address both roadways and transit. By Baruch Feigenbaum This legislative session, the Georgia […]
September 23, 2013
New Network of Metro Atlanta Streets Could Connect Us
Atlanta’s mobility and congestion problems are well known. It has the seventh-worth congestion in the country. The area’s residents waste 51 hours a year sitting in traffic, and those delays […]
August 30, 2013
Friday Facts: August 30, 2013
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.” – Calvin Coolidge “The time is always right to do […]
August 28, 2013
Reason Foundation Proposes New Northern East-West Bypass
It is somewhat understandable why the Atlanta highway system was built like a wheel with the city at the center and interstates fanning out from the core. Think about our […]
May 23, 2012
Georgia Transportation Investment: A Question of How, Not If
By Baruch Feigenbaum On July 31, 2012, voters in 12 regions in Georgia, including a 10-county Atlanta region, will decide in a referendum whether to enact a 1 percent […]
May 23, 2012
Georgia Transportation Investment: A Question of How, Not If
By Baruch Feigenbaum On July 31, 2012, voters in 12 regions in Georgia, including a 10-county Atlanta region, will decide in a referendum whether to enact a 1 percent […]
October 12, 2011
State must Ensure Georgians Warm Up to HOT Lanes
By Benita M. Dodd When a 16-mile High-Occupancy toll (HOT) lane demonstration project opened October 1 on Interstate 85 in metro Atlanta, it was no surprise that motorists crawling alongside […]
January 18, 2011
Misuse of Fees Weakens Trust in Government
And we wonder why trust in government is on the decline. James Salzer has a great article in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution exposing how the state has been diverting fee revenues to […]
February 15, 2008
Express Toll Network Can Drive Congestion Relief
By Benita M. Dodd How and how much are far from concurrence, but Georgians agree that what transportation needs most is funding. Sifting through the myriad transportation proposals, however, reveals […]
August 10, 2007
Transportation Solutions For a Transit-Challenged Region
Atlanta grew up around cars. It’s fundamentally a packet-switched infrastructure. Ask any telecom engineer. You cannot replace a packet-switched infrastructure with circuit switching for any reasonable amount of money. Can’t […]
August 3, 2007
In Transportation and in Technology, Packets Beat Circuits
Why are so many mass transit policies doomed to failure? Because packets beat circuits. By Stephen Fleming (Part 1 of a two-part commentary) Why are so many mass transit policies […]
July 27, 2007
Perspective on Transportation Innovations: Concessions, and Then Some
By Benita M. Dodd Any elected official who proposes raising gas taxes or fees to fund transportation infrastructure needs in Georgia is probably not planning on re-election. Yet every policy-maker […]
March 2, 2006
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Georgia Moves on Transportation
By Benita M. Dodd Transportation proposals are chasing lawmakers at such an exciting and breathtaking pace this year that the convergence of plans under the Gold Dome seems destined to […]
January 14, 2005
Confusion Takes Its Toll on Transportation Solutions
By Benita M. Dodd Are toll roads HOT, and when is HOT not cool? That’s not a trick question or a riddle. It’s a serious policy consideration, and whether the […]