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Feds Clear $5 Billion Blueprint to Break Atlanta's Gridlock, Clear Air.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2003

By Julie B. Hairston, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 8--Metro area officials are breathing easier today after federal highway officials approved the region's $5 billion, three-year plan to relieve gridlock and clean up Atlanta's air.

Local leaders had been worried that a pending lawsuit over $822 million in proposed bonds to finance some of the plan's roads, trains and express buses might cause federal regulators to reject it.

They also worried about objections Gov.-elect Sonny Perdue raised to the plan's funding during his election campaign.

The spending blueprint must pass muster before federal dollars can flow to the region to pay the bulk of the costs for road, mass transit and...

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