Recent polling indicates metro Atlanta voters are divided on T-SPLOST, the transportation special purpose local option sales tax.  Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, an outspoken proponent of T-SPLOST acknowledges next month's vote will be close. 

"I don't know anyone who thought the vote on the transportation referendum was not going to be close, " he tells WSB.  "So, it's a matter of a massive push to get to 50% plus one vote." 

Mayor Reed believes Atlanta's future hinges on transportation.  He chairs the transportation committee for the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting this week in Orlando. 

"It's really about what we want to be--do we want to struggle along, sit in traffic and just survive or do we want to be the dominant economy and city of commercial and business investment in the Southeast?" he asks.

The mayor intends to work until the vote July 31st to build support for the referendum.  Should it fail, he tells WSB, Atlanta will likely seek a bond referendum to pay for transportation improvements.