Get Georgia Moving is one of the broadest coalitions in Georgia's history. United behind additional resources for our state's transportation infrastructure, the Get Georgia Moving Coalition includes more than 100 participating organizations that cover the entire state.
From the Newsroom
| July 1, 2009 | CREATIVE LOAFING - Gov. Sonny Perdue, flanked by newly elected Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Vance Smith and U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari, made the smoggy skies rain with Obamabucks on Tuesday as he kicked off the Peach State’s first foray into stimulus spending. more » |
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| June 21, 2009 | COLUMBUS LEDGER-ENQUIRER - This is the guy the Georgia Department of Transportation should have had in charge two years ago. Some members of the DOT Board tried; he lost by one vote, and pretty much the whole state has had reason to regret it ever since. more » |
| June 21, 2009 | SAPORTA REPORT - The long way around might turn out to be the shortest – and the best. Maybe the state’s transportation program ought to first be based on a statewide strategy more » |
| June 2, 2009 | ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE - All signs point to Vance Smith becoming the next commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation. more » |
| April 9, 2009 | MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL - Georgians might expect their elected state representatives and senators to provide for the state's transportation needs. That is what taxpayers pay taxes for and the federal government makes grants for. It is a primary responsibility of the state government. more » |
| April 7, 2009 | MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL - Citizens should thank Georgia's House and Senate members next time they are stuck in traffic: For a second year in a row, financing for road improvements failed to pass in the General Assembly. more » |
| April 6, 2009 | ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE - The Georgia General Assembly ended its 2009 session Friday night without acting on transportation funding, an issue business leaders in metro Atlanta and across the state had labeled their top priority. more » |
| April 6, 2009 | ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION - The most telling moment of the 2009 session of the Legislature came late Friday, during a fifth round of House-Senate negotiations over a sales tax that would sink more cash into the roads you drive and the rails you’d like to ride. more » |
| April 5, 2009 | AUGUSTA CHRONICLE - Lawmakers had vowed to pass a way for voters to approve a sales tax increase to fund more roadwork and mass transit, recognizing public displeasure over traffic congestion and aging roads. more » |
| April 4, 2009 | ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUION - Lawmakers approved a surprise tax cut for investors Friday, but failed for a second straight year to reach a deal on new funding for transportation. more » |
- Surprise! Georgia’s transportation stimulus spending better than other states
- Dobbins: Create a one state solution for transportation
- Smith can bring order to DOT
- Vance Smith likely next GDOT commissioner
- Editorial: Road to nowhere
- Transportation failure angers Cobb leaders
- Lawmakers adjourn without transportation funding solution
- Transportation funding still an explosive issue
- Big issues get bogged down on final day
- Surprise tax cut, but no transportation deal
- Analysis: Transportation funding gridlock remains
- Transportation funding dies last day of session
- Cagle to Senate: Go forth and lobby for transportation
- A walk-out at the transportation negotiations — by the lobbyists
- Coalition makes call for action
- Again, on transportation: A more definite connection between ‘governance’ and a sales tax
- Transportation power shift needs standards, openness
- Georgia Legislature, are you listening? Get Georgia Moving!
- Transportation still at impasse
- Road tax vote crucial
- Georgia comes to fork in the road
- GGM Urges Lawmakers to ‘Cross the Finish Line’ With Transportation Funding Bill In Final Week of 2009 Legislative Session
- Critics: Will DOT reform help improve roads?
- Transportation hits a gridlock
- DOT may see major shift in how it spends
- House has own ideas on transportation
- Proposed transportation bill to be unveiled today
- Still no real negotiations on transportation tax
- House offers new version of tax bill
- Media Alert: Get Georgia Moving Press Conference at State Capitol
- No compromise on transportation bill
- Competing plans, demands
- Atlanta: Senate adopts Mullis’ road-funding plan
- House, Senate still split on roads funds
- Legislature still split on road bills
- Tax here, spend here
- Tax here, spend here
- House, Senate pit state vs. regions in transportation sales tax
- Time to move and agree with the Senate’s transportation bill
- Our Views: Capitol Avenue gridlock
- Transportation signals mixed
- Editorial: Regional plan still best bet in transportation
- Money and Power: No road hogs
- Transportation revamp rolls on
- County chamber praises transportation tax vote
- Follow the road signs
- House, Senate set to battle over tax for transportation funding
- Lawmakers not on same transit track
- House votes to pass transportation bill
- House, Senate set to battle over tax for transportation funding
- Ga. lawmakers inch toward transportation tax hike
- House passes legislation for new statewide penny tax
- House plan lets voters decide sales tax issue
- Keep it local
- House passes transportation funding measure
- Sinyard: 133 vital to local stability
- Transportation bills are on deck
- Plan to shift transportation funding clears Senate panel
- Reading material for your drive home
- The speedy but rocky first vote on Gov. Sonny Perdue’s transportation bill
- Get Georgia Moving message hits streets
- Get Georgia Moving Launches Public Engagement Campaign With Billboards and Web Site Alerts
- Smith urging statewide sales tax to fund transportation
- ISSUE IN-DEPTH: TRANSPORTATION PLAN: Now is the time to get plans in gear
- TRANSPORTATION PLAN: Asphalt and money
- Transportation plan a power shift over funds
- ISSUE IN-DEPTH: TRANSPORTATION PLAN: Working together, we can find smart solutions to our traffic woes
- Political Insider: Perdue: No more reliance on ‘13 gerrymandered districts’
- Plan to overhaul transportation unveiled for GA
- New transportation plan unveiled by Governor Perdue
- LEGISLATIVE NOTEBOOK: Perdue talks transportation
- New agency to replace DOT?
- New transit agency would bypass DOT
- Gwinnett Chamber lobbies for transportation tax
- Keeping Georgia Moving: Is this the year we break the gridlock?
- DOT seeking new funding
- Voters unlikely to take House’s transportation route
- Senate OKs optional transportation tax
- T-SPLOST heads to Senate
- Georgia: Mullis’ transportation tax option heads for vote
- Sales tax plan would fund transportation
- House leaders propose sales tax to fund transport
- House's proposed penny tax would bypass DOT, fund I-16/I-75
- Cobb lawmakers hopeful for traffic solution
- Under the DOME
- GEORGIA LEGISLATURE: Counties could team on transit
- Ga. Senate unveils plan to provide relief to roads
- Georgia: Mullis revives plan to provide relief on roads
- Lawmaker criticizes cutting state aid to local highways
- Address: Transportation dollars in short supply
- Commission halts roadwork projects
- Why can't we reduce congestion here?
- Local tax would go to roads
- TRANSPORTATION: DOT holds out hope for stimulus funding
- Funding sought for projects
- DOT considers toll lanes on I-75 in Cobb
- Transportation solutions
- Traffic Improvements: Pave the way
- ISSUE IN-DEPTH: TRANSPORTATION: Tax vital to area economy
- Poll: Voters want a say on transportation funds
- Walker: Interstate project being scaled back
- Transit initiative backer runs into delay —- Atlanta traffic
- Poll Shows Voters Across GA Support ‘Immediate’ Action on Transportation With 74% Supporting the Right to Vote on Funding
- New Georgia Poll Shows Support for Vote on Transportation Funding
- Poll: Ga. voters want state to solve traffic woes
- Editorial: Transportation planning makes economic sense
- Transportation officials talk funding
- Poll: 74 percent of Georgians want to vote on a penny sales tax for traffic fixes
- GDOT to make tough decisions
- Ga. transportation leaders paint an ugly picture
- Georgia leaders try to set transportation strategy
- Editorial: Transportation best handled at regional level
- I-75/I-16 interchange project pushed back to 2018
- DOT hits funding roadblock
- OUR OPINION: Running on empty
- Breaking up the traffic jam
- Traffic, transportation, key Henry legislative concerns
- Legislators urged to handle worsening road congestion
- Lawmakers: T-SPLOST a likely option for state budget issues
- 30-year transit plan approved for region
- Political notebook: Transportation vote could come soon
- Less congestion, at a price
- I-85 HOV lanes to charge toll
- Feds approve grant for I-85 HOT lanes
- Region taxing plan is back
- TRANSPORTATION TAX: Cagle: Consensus must pave the way
- Coalition kicks off next round of transportation funding push
- Tired of Sitting in Traffic?
- Lt. Governor Speaks on Metro Atlanta Traffic
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Gaining Momentum Toward Effort to Invest in Transportation to Improve Mobility
- No widening for 41; No funding for project right now
- Politics, paltry funding wreck transportation
- Ga. 316 upgrades: Public to comment on project
- State road construction funds weighed
- Study: How state can invest in transit
- DOT chief talks about shortfall
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Encouraged By Report of Governor’s Transportation Task Force
- Study: GA needs $100B for transportation
- Audit: State roads financial trouble real
- State DOT may give local officials more input on projects
- State audit finds sloppy accounting at DOT
- Audit finds huge deficit costing jobs
- DOT Commissioner Gena Evans Makes Visit to Laurens County
- A National Mobility Project
- Transportation tops agenda in District 22
- DOT discusses tolls, sales tax
- Road Cuts bypass Isles
- In job losses, Georgia is #2
- DOT suspends Ga. 142 widening
- State kills Ga. 400 toll lane proposal
- DOT hits the brakes on 11 road projects
- Leaders see I-75 as priority construction in 2009
- Olens talks metro vs. state, transportation
- DOT: Funding for local projects may be restored
- Solution to DOT deficit divisive
- DOT'S BUDGET: Deficit drops if road plans suspended
- Jackson County to go ahead with talks of I-85 interchange
- Georgia DOT avoids layoffs
- Connecticut firm pays $22 million for Columbus area rail line
- Taking a toll
- Cagle pushes toll lanes, penny tax to fund road needs
- Cagle: Consider Passing T-SPLOST as a bill, with Perdue's support
- Cagle endorses regional approach to transportation funding
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Commends Lt. Governor's Focus on Transportation
- Lt. Governor Casey Cagle: Transportation Initiatives a Priority This Session
- DOT may have $1.2 billion in road project overruns
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Honors Legislators with “Champions of Mobility” Award
- 133 Coalition makes noise
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Applauds Governor’s Transportation Effort, Looks Forward to Results
- Road projects in limbo as DOT struggles with funding
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Names Terry Chastain Executive Director
- Transportation still a local priority
- DOT fears $1 billion shortfall
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Commends Conference Committee's Exemplary Leadership
- Life in the 'Burbs: Heavy Costs for Families, Climate
- House OKs transit-tax referendums
- House approves vote on tax for regional transportation
- Kessel Stelling: New sales tax would help relieve traffic congestion
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Applauds House Passage of SR 845, Urges Lawmakers: ‘Now Let’s Cross the Finish Line’
- Solve the transportation funding crisis
- Get Georgia Moving Coalition Supports S.R. 845
- Overextended DOT plans to ax projects
- Board supports HOV tolls for solo drivers
- Transportation Funding Bill Gets Boost From Public Transit Advocates
- Roads by region
- House Panel Moves Ball Forward On Possible Transportation Funding Compromise
- EPA tightens ozone limits; 14 Ga. counties in violation
- GGM Coalition Launches Interactive Web site: www.GetGeorgiaMoving.com
- Transportation committees near consensus on transportation funding proposal
- Getting somewhere: House, Senate can meet in the middle with regional approach to transportation funding
- With the GREAT plan gone, it’s time to talk roads
- Transportation Coalition Ramps Up Effort To Get Something Moving On Taxes
- Consensus on Transportation Funding Solution is Near
- GOP stuck in tenuous position
- DOT to ax 150 road projects next week
- State representative says tax still sought for transportation
- Govs target transportation funding
- The Nation In Numbers; America’s aging and congested road, rail, and air networks are threatening its economic health.
- Insider Advantage: Cagle Pushing 1-Cent Local Option Sales Tax For Transportation; Counter-Proposal Dropped In House
- GGM Applauds Speaker & House Leaders
- GGM Applauds Lt. Gov and Senate
- Atlanta Business Chronicle--Cagle backs regional transportation tax with major twist
- Albany Herald--Road funding plan mulled
- Florida Times Union—Transportation funding desired for all of Georgia
- Transportation funding desired for all of Georgia
- Albany Herald: Lawmakers still face numerous transportation funding choices
- Marietta Daily Journal: Committee recommends two tax plans
- Savannah Morning News: Two transit-funding formulas offered
- Athens Banner-Herald: New approach to transportation holds promise
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Highway funding may be legislative tussle
- Insider Advantage: Transportation Panel Unveils Recommendations For Funding Improvements, Other Steps
- Associated Press: Transportation committee's report recommends two tax plans
- GGM Applauds Study Committee
- Atlanta Business Chronicle: Legislative task force backs regional penny for congestion
