Update: Here is the link to the GPB newsbite about this. I guess we can call this one verified.
I read on some Chattanooga newsie site that Atlanta DOT is going to start charging for use of the HOV lane. Is this true? Can anyone verify this for me? I drive from East Point all the way up to Dunwoody to get to work, and C has even further to go. That special little lane is the only thing that keeps our daily commute at just under four hours. Seriously. Besides, why would they penalize those of us doing the right thing? Why not tax those fuckers in their giant SUVs? Why not tax the 5'4" 87 lb. interior designer driving to work in a goddamned suburban?
This city, man. She's beautiful, she's fun, she's always down for a good time, but man, she has some of the dumbest, meanest, ugliest little cells in control of her every move.
It is so frustrating to know what this city could be, if it weren't at the behest of a redneck legislative body. The blue bubble that is Atlanta has helped put the American south on the map economically and culturally for years. The whole state (and to some extent, the whole region) has prospered because the A has flourished. And what do we get from the state legislature? MARTA funding cut by millions because OTP north Cobb is xenophobic and still whiter than wonderbread. Grady hospital, the best trauma center in the entire southeast on the verge of bankruptcy because state representatives whose closest constituents live in MACON don't want to spend ATLANTA tax dollars on a hospital that helps homeless crack addicts.
At least we'll always have hip-hop.....
Goon Wisdom #9
15 years ago
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I heard about the HOV lane crap. Granted, as a single dood who drives to work through the backroads of suburbia, I don't know your pain.
That is what sucks about being blue surrounded by red. It's like swimming in a sea of damned sharks. Hopefully, one day, they will find the error of their ways. One day they will realize that people like Darth Helms are dead or are a dying breed.
Hopefully...one day.
Just one more example of how we are moving towards some kind of capitalist feudalism, where the people willing to pay get their own lane, thus proving how better they are compared to the rest of us.
What's next? Seperate restaurants? That never happened ever...oh wait...nevermind. I forgot the 1950s.
Easy now, Trotsky. You're looking a little red, bud. I don't think we're moving towards any kind of capitalist feudalism. I just think it's sad that the concept of fiscal responsibility has been hijacked by people who have none. Our state elected a millionaire land developer who ran on a platform of slashing taxes across the board. What happens? Unrestrained, unregulated land speculation and development, spurred on by lower tax rates, leads to one of the worst sustained enironmental crises the state has ever experienced, and every regulatory/infrastructure agency that could do something about it has been so gutted by budget cuts that they can't even report the full scale of the problem. And in the meantime, I certainly haven't noticed a reduction in my state tax deductions, sales taxes, gas taxes, or sin taxes. Have you? My point is, it isn't willful feudalism or elitism (although that doesn't help) that is causing this. It's the irresponsibility of the voting public. It's the intellectual laziness of the goober in the booth who thinks "Oh yeah! That guy wants to lower my taxes!" without actually looking at the tax proposal and noticing that it doesn't really apply to anyone making less than 80K or 90K a year. This is frequently the same guy who wants to keep fighting a war, but will spit fire if he is told his taxes have to be raised to do it. We elected a guy who had driven several oil companies straight into the ground to lead the world's largest oil consumer, and look what happened. We get the government we deserve. That's the real pain in the ass.
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