The Georgia

Regional Transportation Authority's plan to run commuter buses in suburban

counties is starting to hit the skids.

The Coweta

County Commission Tuesday decided not to pay the transportation superagency's

invoice for starting the service.

In exchange

for paying $850,000 to help run the bus system for three years, the county

was to receive $10.4 million to improve dangerous intersections and arterial

roads.

The commissioners

approved the deal last spring, but the political climate has changed.

"We don't

even know if this program's going to exist. There's no sense in paying

this until we know what's going to happen at the state level," said

Commissioner Vernon "Mutt" Hunter.

Commission

chairman Leigh Schlumper was the only commissioner last year who opposed

the deal, and could hardly resist a "told you so' to Hunter.

Plans for the

bus system called for eight round trips a day from Coweta County to Hartsfield.