T-SPLOST: What's In It For Brookhaven And Chamblee?

Believe it or not, there's something else on the July 31 ballot other than Brookhaven cityhood.

It's the regional transportation referendum, otherwise known as T-SPLOST, that numerous and public elected officials have been lobbying their constituents to approve.

On July 31, residents across the 10-county Atlanta region - including DeKalb and the city of Atlanta - will vote on a referendum that would fund $8.5 billion in transportation improvements through a regional one percent sales tax.

There's a whole slew of projects that would be funded across the region if voters approve the tax. Here in Brookhaven and Chamblee, however, there are only a handful:

• Project AR-040: $53 million worth of improvements to the I-85 north/I-285 interchange.
• Project DK-014: $5 million worth of improvements to the Ashford-Dunwoody/Peachtree Road corridor.
• Project DK-018: $12 million worth of pedestrian, landscape and bike path improvements and construction along the Buford Highway corridor from Lenox Road to Shallowford Terrace.