Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Transportation referendums

Transit Was a Big Winner at this Year’s Polls

By Vince DiMiceli | Nov 15, 2021 | No Comments

Voters across the country continued to recognize the importance of keeping public buses and trains moving — and financed — even as most progressive and pro-transit candidates didn’t fare as well at the ballot box this November.

This Atlanta bus speaks for riders — but not necessarily for Georgia lawmakers or suburban county leaders.

Atlanta’s Transit Flaws Are State’s Fault

By Aaron Short | Sep 25, 2019 | 3 Comments

Atlanta is set to spend more than half a billion dollars to build a 22-mile light rail line — but the vital public infrastructure won't likely be done until 2050 because the city isn't getting state or federal funding. And that's the problem.

Phoenix voters rejected a ballot proposition that would have curtailed light rail expansion in the future.

Phoenix Voters Save Light Rail

By Aaron Short | Aug 28, 2019 | 15 Comments

Take that, Koch brothers: Voters in Phoenix have soundly rejected a proposal that would have halted the expansion of the city's light rail system.

The Koch brothers are trying to torpedo a transit plan that's both big enough to inspire and grounded in the technical details of what makes transit work well. Map: Let's Move Nashville

The Koch Brothers Want to Keep Nashville Mired in Traffic

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 2, 2018 | 176 Comments

The fossil fuel plutocrats are backing an opposition campaign to squelch the city's ambitious transit ballot measure.

Atlanta Beltline Staff: “We Still Have a Project to Build”

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 6, 2012 | 3 Comments

The Atlanta Beltline project isn’t going away. Project staff want to make that clear. Sure, last week, Atlanta turned down — by a wide margin — a major transportation spending package that would have awarded $600 million to the Beltline project. But this project — an innovative transit and trails corridor that will circle Atlanta’s central city — has seen […]

Will Atlanta’s Transpo Referendum Overcome Early Voting Deficit?

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 31, 2012 | 5 Comments

It was fitting that yesterday, the eve of the Atlanta region’s historic transportation vote, the Georgia NAACP filed a civil rights suit against the state Department of Transportation alleging discrimination in contracting. Meanwhile, the head of the DeKalb County NAACP has come out against the T-SPLOST tax proposal, saying it will hurt minority-owned businesses. He even took a […]