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Georgia uses SPLOSTs for stuff like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_local-option_sales_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_lo
by Kye 5y ago
Georgia uses SPLOSTs for stuff like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_local-option_sales_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_local-option_s...
Here's an example of the result in this local interchange conversion from an intersection that wasn't designed for all the traffic going through it: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9462412,-83.7533688,476m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9462412,-83.7533688,476m/dat...
It looks sparse in traffic now, but it used to take 5-30 minutes to cross!
Another underway closer to Athens: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9400062,-83.7207463,3a,75y,20.86h,101.24t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sLa9wkJ8NEAGu3a_4gCEmYw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DLa9wkJ8NEAGu3a_4gCEmYw%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D61.264313%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9400062,-83.7207463,3a,75y,2...
This is part of a years-long project to turn highway 316/University Parkway between Athens and I-85 into a controlled-access highway to handle the next few decades of growth as what used to be sprawl from Atlanta turns into major population centers.