Cobb residents who cast ballots in favor of a special purpose sales tax renewal this fall may get more than they voted for — a half billion dollar bus system that would primarily serve the Cobb Parkway area.
That's because Cobb Commission Chairman Tim Lee, who has been advocating for the controversial transit line, has asked commissioners to add 10 projects to the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum that would help the county qualify for a $250 million federal grant needed to fund the so-called bus rapid transit.
Those projects were not included in initial lists of SPLOST projects. Instead, Lee would like them to replace a single, $100 million, line item that was clearly identified as being dedicated to the transit line.
Critics say the change is meant to mask the county’s pursuit of the controversial bus rapid transit. It is, they say, a way to get voters to approve funding for a transit project that they soundly rejected as part of the 2012 regional Transportation SPLOST.
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