Gateway 85

Positioned for prosperity

The old suburban white flight counties of Cobb and Gwinnett are now voting solidly blue and are increasingly crowded.

So it seemed it might be time to finally create some real transit systems to match their urbanization.

The thought this year was that highways are clogged and voters, who now are of many hues and ethnicities, might think differently from those of the past. This time, the thinking went, residents might agree to tax themselves (a 1-cent sales tax over 30 years) and create sprawling transit systems to make their counties more accessible to all residents.

Read more here.