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Almost 90 Percent of Ballot Measures Pass in 2017
Voters across the nation approved seven of eight public transit measures on the Nov. 7 ballot, with one result still to be determined, for a total success rate of 87.5 percent for 2017.
The three largest measures are bond issues. In Denver, almost 73 percent of voters approved Referred Question 2A, which supports authorizing the city to issue up to $431 million in general obligation bonds to fund transportation improvements including $55 million to begin the Regional Transportation District’s East Colfax Avenue BRT project and $101 million for road repair projects. This measure is part of a $937 million bond package that passed in its entirety.
Statewide Question 3 in Maine, which received 72 percent of the vote, includes public transit and rail among recipients of $20 million for facilities, equipment and property acquisition, part of a $105 million bond supporting state highways, bridges and culverts at stream crossings.
A $172 million capital project bond in Philadelphia, which includes public transit, passed with 69 percent of the vote.
Almost 74 percent of voters in Athens-Clarke County, GA, approved a new 1 percent sales tax for Transportation-Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax projects including public transit.
Voters in three other municipalities approved renewals of taxes to support public transit: Grand Rapids, MI, a 12-year renewal of the 1.47-mill tax that supports The Rapid, which received 61 percent of the vote; Mahoning County, OH, where almost 60 percent of voters approved a permanent renewal of a quarter-cent sales tax for the Western Reserve Transit Authority in Youngstown; and Lawrence, KS, where renewal of a .2 percent special sales tax for the city’s public transit service
passed with almost 70 percent of the vote. The outstanding initiative is in Adams County, CO.
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