Georgia Weekly Legislative Update - February 8, 2016

The author of legislation that would facilitate a major expansion of MARTA into Atlanta's public transit-starved northern arc, the Emory/CDC corridor and east on I-20, has introduced a slightly revised measure after the original proposal was parked for review in a committee from which few pieces of legislation ever escape.

Now, Sen. Brandon Beach's bill, which would authorize the voters in Fulton and DeKalb counties to approve by ballot a half-penny tax that would finance a major rail expansion, has been assigned to the Transportation Committee.

That new assignment marks a promising start for the proposal even as it still faces opposition from other members of the Fulton and DeKalb delegations.