Citizens Asked to Weigh in on Transportation Projects

Gwinnett County residents will have the opportunity to offer opinions regarding a regional transportation project list during a June 20 telephone town hall meeting.

Members of the Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable executive committee are currently in the process of whittling down a 445-item, $22.9 billion "unconstrained" list of suggested transportation projects into a "constrained" list that can be funded by the $7 billion in revenue a proposed 1 percent transportation sales tax is expected to generate for regional projects.

Next July, voters will be asked to approve the penny sales tax to fund a specified list of regional transportation projects. The tax, if passed, will remain in effect for 10 years.

The roundtable will solicit citizen input regarding the project list during a series of telephone town hall meetings. According to an announcement on the Atlanta Regional Roundtable website, over one million people will be called over six evenings and asked to participate in a phone discussion with local roundtable representatives. Gwinnett’s telephone town hall meeting will take place on June 20 at 7:15 p.m. To participate, residents may be randomly called or may choose to call 1-888-886-6603. The PIN for the Gwinnett call is 16724.

Local governments, transit agencies and other organizations from the 10-county metro Atlanta region submitted their suggestions for the transportation special purpose local option sales tax or TSPLOST project list earlier this year.