The Atlanta Regional Commission has approved a 30-year plan to spend more than $60 billion on transportation projects across the metro Atlanta area. The approval on Wednesday of the $60.9 billion Plan 2040 project was an update to a transportation list that was last approved by the commission in 2007. It is not related to the list being drawn up for a sales tax referendum next year. It calls for spending billions of local, state and federal dollars on road widening projects and mass transit. Read More