State Senator Seeks State Takeover of Atlanta Airport
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
A Butts County state senator is lobbying his colleagues to study a state takeover of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, now operated by the city of Atlanta.
“A lot of the transportation issues ... the problems we have talked about in this state, are metro Atlanta issues, and I feel like we need to talk about metro Atlanta solutions,” said state Sen. Burt Jones, R-Jackson.
The “issues” and “problems” are road and bridge repairs as well as construction that Georgia needs to undertake at a cost of about $1 billion per year, according to a House of Representatives study committee.
