In California’s Bay Area, Measure RR provides Caltrain with crucial funds for the future. This initiative also includes funding set aside to fight housing displacement, a by-product of input from community members who worried about transit’s potential gentrifying effects. Prop B will allow the city to borrow $460 million for a host of infrastructure improvements, including new sidewalks, bikeways, and street repair. Prop A will raise property taxes in Austin to help pay for the Project Connect transit improvement plan-the $7.1 billion “Project Connect” transit plan-which includes two new light rail lines and expansion of the city’s commuter rail. In Austin voters overwhelmingly approve transit-related ballot measures with two propositions passed, Propositions A and B. Local Neighborhood sidewalk in New Jersey. While not all transit initiatives passed on November 3rd with notable losses in Portland and in the Atlanta region this continues a trend noted by APTA’s Josh Cohen that we have seen 32 out of 34 local transit measures already pass since January. Two critical wins can be seen in Austin, Texas and California’s San Francisco Bay area. Voters have consistently supported local transit initiatives in recent election cycles and 2020 continued this trend. Transit, labor, police reform, and drug decriminalization have taken top billing in many places this year.Įven as the 2020 election has not yet fully concluded-with votes continuing to be counted on races nationwide-there are significant shifts that will be seen in our cities as the result of these ballot initiatives. Every 4 years we all focus intently on the presidential and national elections at hand, but important decisions that affect community members every day are decided with state and local ballot initiatives.
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