Fairburn City

Administrator Tony Cox is urging the City Council to take a close look

at performance measures recently approved by the Georgia Regional Transportation

Authority.

Cox passed

out the GRTA guidelines at the last council meeting and said it's now

becoming clear that the transportation superagency is focusing on high-density

developments.

"You need

to see if this is the type of development you want," Cox told the

council.

GRTA adopted

16 performance measures to evaluate how effective it is in solving the

region's transportation problems. Eleven of the measures deal with mass

transit issues.

Some of the

guidelines include:

Percentage

of population with one-quarter mile of a bus route.

Percentage

of population within one-half mile of a rail stop.

Total transit

ridership.

Number of miles

of designated bicycle facilities.

"Adopting

these measures is a positive step for GRTA," said GRTA Executive

Director Catherine Ross. "We now have a valid baseline against which

we can judge the success of our efforts."

Cox asked the

City Council to evaluate GRTA's standards and possibly respond