[ale] unusual global warming experiment

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Jim Kinney wrote:
> Improve traffic by removing lanes on 20, 85. 75, and 285. Simultaneously 
> slap on a rising gas tax of $1-$2 / gallon and a special tax on parking 
> lots of about $2/day/space. All of that money gets used to add rail 
> lines that run daily commuters every 10 minutes from Chatanooga to 
> Macon, Athens to Atlanta and Social Circle, and Gainsville to LaGrange.
> 
> 2 million people drive to work each day in the metro Atlanta area. That 
> could mean $3M per day to rebuild our transportation infrastructure to 
> be some approaching sanity.

so people living in Douglasville that work in Austell would have to 
effectively pay for rail they both don't need and would not use?  i 
mean, gas would have to be the same price in the outlying areas because 
if i lived where it was $2/gal higher i would just drive 20 min to save $$$.