The Associated Press
The Newnan Times-Herald
Apr 23, 2010
HEADLINES:
The House and the Senate overcame years of struggle and approved an historic transportation funding bill on Wednesday, delivering on a plan that would allow Georgia voters to decide whether to hike the sales tax by one cent to pay for roads, bridges and rail projects.
The Senate voted 43-8 for passage Wednesday night. In the House the vote was 141-29. It now moves to Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Legislators have struggled to strike a deal on transportation, bidding in particular to end some of the worst gridlock in the nation in metro Atlanta and in Georgia, the ninth most populous state. Under the plan, Georgians would vote during the 2012 presidential primary on whether to increase the sales tax for transportation. The state would be broken into regions. Only regions that approve the sales tax increase would have the money to spend.
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