Critique of Dwayne GA 400 Article

Having once lived in the Roswell suburb of Atlanta, I became very acquainted with the tollway along the GA 400 highway. After reading Dwayne's article inciting a removal of the current toll, I began to quickly question some of the statements made in his article.

Having traveled up and down the tollway numerous times I began to notice that the nominal 50 cent fee for traveling the toll booth eventually became a non-factoring element of my daily travel plans. For those who use the highway on a fairly frequent basis the toll often times makes up for the time that could be spent trying to commute to avoid the highway. In Dwayne's blog about the GA 400 tollway he eluded to the fact that the state is currently stockpiling extra money from the tollway. I agree with Dwayne's statement that this extra toll money should go towards building new Georgia roads thus providing more jobs to Georgia's citizens and in effect contributing to the stimulation of our economy by providing new jobs. In the past, President Hoover created projects to help stimulate the economy like the building of the Hoover Dam. Projects like this have proven to effect the economy in a positive way. So like Dwayne said in his blog, the state of Georgia should use the money they are currently stockpiling to help build and fix some of Atlanta's other causeways.