Politics & Government

Telephone Town Hall Scheduled on TSLPOST

Gwinnett residents will be able to comment on proposed transportation projects June 20.

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 with the $8 billion in revenue a proposed one 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, would remain in effect for 10 years.

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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, more than 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.

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Duluth requests on the list include four-laning Buford Highway, currently two-lane, from Old Peachtree Road to Sugarloaf Parkway; six-laning Pleasant Hill Road, now four lanes, from Howell Ferry Road to the Chattahoochee River, a joint request with Gwinnett County; and improvements to Ga. Hwy. 120 from the proposed Hospital Connector to Hill Street.

The lists accompanying this article show proposed projects in Gwinnett County.


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