Lawmakers Work on Transportation Funding Compromise; Atlanta Chamber President Says Now is the Time ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - With time running out on yet another session of the Legislature, House and Senate negotiators keep working for a transportation funding compromise that would pay for projects to relieve gridlock in metro Atlanta and elsewhere in Georgia.

Governor Sonny Perdue has proposed a plan that would let voters in regions around the state decide whether to raise their sales taxes a penny-on-the-dollar to pay for regional transportation projects. But a big dispute has cropped up; over whether individual counties could opt out of the regional tax.

For 3 years, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has been a major force behind a transportation funding bill. It has failed in each of the last two years. In a conversation with WABE's Denis O'Hayer Metro Chamber President Sam Williams said he's more worried about how much control the state would have over regional projects, than he is about counties opting out.
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