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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Marshall Willis' masters thesis on a parking tax in Atlanta for Georgia Tech's School of City and Regional Planning is being studied by Atlanta City Councilman Aaron Watson's office as a potential way to encourage transit ridership and spur denser development. Estimates of how much the fee could raise range between $40 and $75 million per year. A second, less likely option to address Atlanta's transportation backlog would be a bond measure that would first need to go to voters.
