Gov. Perdue’s proposed $300 million bond plan for transportation would do little to help metro commuters and even less to give Atlantans alternatives to the automobile.

According to this morning’s Atlanta Business Chronicle article breaking down, the plan’s mainly about moving freight through Georgia:

… the most expensive project on the governor’s list would spend $121 million to build a 3.5-mile limited-access highway connecting the four-lane Jimmy DeLoach Parkway in Chatham County to the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal.

While the project carrying the next-highest price tag would help with metro Atlanta’s traffic, it also has freight ramifications. An $80 million plan to widen Interstate 75 in Henry County would improve the movement of trucks on a heavily traveled freight corridor linking Michigan and Florida.

Perdue also is seeking $50 million for right-of-way acquisition for the widening of U.S. 441 in North Georgia and $32 million for a road realignment project to improve freight movement near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

That leaves $17 million for everything else, and the governor suggests spreading that around the state rather than dealing with metro Atlanta’s problems.

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