www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com Gwinnett County commissioners voted 4-1 to ask voters to once again decide whether a 30-year 1% sales tax should be implemented to fund transit expansion in the county.
The transit expansion vote will take place Nov. 3, less than two years after voters rejected a referendum on Gwinnett joining MARTA. Gwinnett will break some ground with the new vote on expanding its existing transit system, with a major growth of its bus system and the inclusion of heavy rail, according to Gwinnett Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash.
This referendum will be different from the one held last year in that it is mostly asking voters to approve funding to expand Gwinnett County Transit, which is the existing county-run transit. By contrast, last year’s vote was not on expanding transit, but joining MARTA’s system to do so and getting rid of Gwinnett County Transit in the process.
The new referendum will, however, include a heavy rail extension that will bring MARTA’s heavy rail line from its Doraville station to the Jimmy Carter Boulevard extension. Under the state law that created the Atlanta Transit Link Authority, also known as The ATL, MARTA is the only agency allowed to operate heavy rail in metro Atlanta.
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