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Center for Transportation Excellence Reports
Transportation
Finance at the Ballot Box: Voters Support Increased
Investment & Choice
CFTE analyzed transportation ballot measures from 2000 - 2005. This report documents key trends in these elections and the implications for transportation finance. From 2000 - 2005, voters in 33 states approved ballot measures totaling more than $70 billion. Transportation measures have an amazing 70% approval rate with voters.
Building Communities Through Public Transportation: A
Guide for Successful Transit Initiatives
Released at the 2005 Transit Initiatives and
Communities conference, this guide is designed to help
with the nuts and bolts of a public transportation referendum.
CFTE has developed a short piece entitled "Public
Transportation at the Ballot Box" (doc). This
paper is intended to provide an overview of trends in recent years,
focusing on the strong support for transportation choices at the
local level.
On Point from Energy and
Environment TV
CFTE Advisory Board member and American Public Transportation Association
Policy Director Art Guzzetti appears on On Point from Energy and
Environment TV to discuss transit ballot measures and other local
efforts to pay for subway, bus and light rail systems. Guzzetti
also discusses the transportation reauthorization bill Congress
passed last summer, the effect of high gasoline prices on ridership
and whether transit is expanding. Click here
to view the episode (flash required)
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