Jane Jacobs’ seminal study of urban structure, “Death and Life of Great America’s Cities,” noted more than 50 years ago — and has since been irrefutably demonstrated with every transportation project — more or better highways don’t decrease congestion, they increase it.

It is disturbing that whoever is behind the nonsensical T-SPLOST effort has been able to get this far without condemnation. Clearly the issue is more about having revenue to waste than improving urban planning.

Has MARTA in Atlanta gotten better or become self-supporting? Has a wider, Lower Fayetteville Road reduced congestion?

People have supported this 10-year tax increase and have no idea how the money will be spent, where it will be spent, or if it will fund effective projects — or like the Justice Center, require tax increases to staff, complete and maintain projects begun under this farce.

Apparently, P.T. Barnum vastly underestimated the number of suckers and their birth rate.

Frank D. Banta

Newnan