Tag: Transportation

Georgia governor, Atlanta mayor headed to DC to lobby for port dredging, passenger rail funding

Well some very interesting news this morning from Jim Galloway at the AJC’s Political Insider. According to Galloway, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed are headed next week to Washington “for a strategy session on Port of…

Savannah area gas prices down about 20 cents per gallon in recent weeks

In one of my columns a couple of weeks ago about some cautionary economic data, I mentioned a bright side: the probability of falling gas prices. According to GasBuddy, gas prices per gallon have fallen about 20 cents since their…

Will metro Atlanta spend more on transit than road-building in the next decade??

Atlanta has long been synonymous with cars, with traffic, with sprawl. But local governments in the metro area appear to be embracing a vision for transit unlike ever before. This isn’t just some pie in the sky vision on my…