Comments on: Signs of life along the BeltLine

By: cityzen

cityzen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:16:36 +0000

Since the ADA and its Beltline offshoots are designed to be opaque in their funding and spending, I’m not going to bother researching to prove the point. This particular PR event may receive no tax money directly or indirectly – though that’s unlikely. The general point remains valid. There is massive PR for the Beltline, designed to keep the public sentimentally in favor of a boondoggle that will never offer viable transit. The winners are the land flippers – Wayne Mason, Norfolk Southern, Vulcan, et al. Plus the various officeholders and consultants at ABI and other quangos. The losers: taxpayers and residents whose services have been reduced because taxes are diverted to pay the winners.

By: Thomas Wheatley

Thomas Wheatley — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:12:42 +0000

From everything my sources have told me, cityzen, this is a bottom-up, grassroots effort. It’s received no funding from official entities.

By: cityzen

cityzen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:24:36 +0000

We know the Beltline is transformative – it’s transforming Atlanta into a permanent budget crisis.

How much tax money is going into the endless PR boondoggles to boost the Beltline? That TAD money is supposed to pay off the bonds that Atlanta borrowed to give Wayne Mason a $40mm profit on the stretch he flipped. But the ADA’s unaccountable PR minions seem to have their mitts on it. Since they never plan to put transit on the circle, they must figure they have money enough and to spare to sprinkle around endless feel-good events like this one. Never mind all the useful cops and teachers that we can’t afford to hire because of the tax diversion scam.

Shame on Loaf for breathlessly repeating every press release that emanates from ADA and its various captive Beltlineries. Unless of course they are paying Loaf to stay afloat with some of that TAD tax money , in which case your cooperative attitude is understandable.