Damn! This is not good for Georgia: Feds freeze GDOT's transit grants -- Report finds programs riddled with financial management problems

From the ajc:

At a moment when mass transit is taking center stage as a solution to transportation problems nationwide, a federal report has concluded that the Georgia Department of Transportation’s transit program is riddled with financial management problems . . . .

The problems were so severe that the federal government has frozen DOT’s transit grants, which average about $28 million a year, including some from the federal stimulus program. The report cast doubt on whether DOT could manage grants for the commuter rail line proposed to go south through Lovejoy.

The Federal Transit Administration reviewed DOT’s handling of federal grants to smaller and rural transit operators throughout the state — not big systems like MARTA.