Jason Jordan, executive director of Center for Transportation Excellence, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., said “2016 will be a record-breaking year for transportation ballot measures. There will be 70 ballot measures in the United States.”
Taxes for transportation have a healthy approval rate. The CTE calculated that about 70 percent have passed since 2000. Many of those were passed in conservative-leaning states, such as Georgia and Utah, records show.
The article lists the many reasons why there are so many local transit taxes, and why so many people actually love these kinds of taxes!