Hard to Kill: Why Government Agencies Take on a Life of Their Own
This scandal is part of a broader problem involving the state DOT planning (or not planning) road expansion desired by the state legislature and executive; plans to further expand toll collection by taxing EXISTING HOV lanes on the interstate highways in the Atlanta metropolitan region; and the underlying distaste for public transport by many Atlanta residents (which expresses itself in county referenda which decline integration of their county systems into MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, also known colloquially as Moving Africans Rapidly Thru Atlanta). Transportation policy is perceived (accurately I believe) as a means whereby the City of Atlanta and Fulton County export their deficit based, high tax budgeting style to the rest of the region, which by and large (whether Democratic or Republican controlled) practices financial prudence.
