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Atlanta Forward: Transportation

By Tom Sabulis
July 7, 2014

Clayton County commissioners have voted to allow a referendum on November’s ballot that will let residents decide if they want to raise the sales tax to join MARTA. Today, we discuss citizens’ desire to vote on the measure, while an opponent of the MARTA agreement details his problems with the contract. A Norfolk Southern executive also responds to a previous study on passenger rail to Clayton, and about the challenge of running MARTA trains on the railroad’s tracks or right-of-way.

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