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Time to Get Ready for 2018 Ballot Initiatives
If your agency is planning a ballot initiative for 2018, Election Day will be here before you know it.
It’s never too early to get started on building support and launching educational campaigns. One good way to begin is to review the resources at the Center for Transportation Excellence (CFTE), an APTA affiliate that serves as an online clearinghouse for public transportation-related ballot measures.
Public transit officials will find such resources as examples of ballot language and sample campaign materials, an interactive map showing the location of recent transit votes, extensive research and original reports regarding the connections between communities and their public transit agencies and information on training and webinars. CFTE also keeps a running year-by-year list of ballot issues and tabulates the percentage of measures that pass. It’s all here.
Transit leaders can also attend CFTE’s biennial Transit Initiatives and Communities Conference, May 21-23 in Seattle. This meeting—the only national conference exclusively devoted to understanding transportation ballot measures and providing concrete advice on how to win—features firsthand accounts from industry professionals and volunteers who have worked on successful campaigns.
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