Eugene, OR
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Flush with new revenue expected from rising payroll tax receipts, Lane Transit District is looking to add service, hire six more bus drivers and launch a new marketing campaign…
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Why do ballots from the transit vote take so long to be counted?
Vancouver, CAN
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Many people have been wondering when the results from the transit plebiscite will be made public and why it’s taking so long for the numbers to be released…
More info at http://www.news1130.com/2015/05/31/why-do-ballots-from-the-transit-vote-take-so-long-to-be-counted/
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B.C. transit votes are in, key players planning for either outcome
Vancouver, CAN
Released by The Globe and Mail
As the counting of ballots begins in Canada’s first public vote on whether to finance expanded transit with a new tax, key players are considering what they would do whether it is the Yes side or the No side that wins…
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County Council hesitant to enact sales tax to benefit CVTD, transportation projects
Cache County, UT
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The Cache County Council met Tuesday and discussed the possibility of putting an optional sales tax on the ballot to gather funds for transportation and roads. However, the council seemed hesitant about the resolution over concerns that the Cache Valley Transit District will benefit more than the county…
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About 45 per cent of Metro Vancouver transit-tax ballots returned as deadline looms
Vancouver, CAN
Released by The Vancouver Sun
Nearly 45 per cent of the transit-tax plebiscite packages mailed to Metro Vancouver residents have been received and screened by Elections BC days before the deadline and months after the Yes and No sides began their campaigns…
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Valley transportation strategy gets boost from MovePHX Proposition 104
Phoenix, AZ
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Getting goods to market and people to work is another thrust from the Greater Phoenix Economic Council's Velocity strategic business plan for the Phoenix metro area, and it's getting an assist from the city of Phoenix this summer…
More info at http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2015/05/28/velocity-transportation-strategy-gets-boost.html
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Detroit, Grand Rapids have two advantages in luring millennials and baby boomers, says CEO
Mackinac Island, MI
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MACKINAC ISLAND, MI — Grand Rapids and Detroit have an advantage over other cities when it comes to attracting millennials and baby boomers — if they can build effective transportation infrastructure, said the head of Michigan's first bus rapid transit system Thursday…
More info at http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2015/05/detroit_grand_rapids_have_two.html
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COTA considers campaign to renew transit tax in 2016
Columbus, OH
Released by The Columbus Dispatch
The Central Ohio Transit Authority is eyeing the 2016 general election to ask voters to renew its 0.25 percent sales tax levy, but that could leave the agency in a lurch if voters turn it down…
More info at http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/05/27/COTA_considering_campaign_to_renew_transit_tax_in_2016.html
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Part of city’s old streetcar system returning
Cincinnati, OH
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rassroots leaders are bringing a part of Cincinnati's original streetcar system back…
More info at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/05/26/believe-cincinnati-streetcar-meeting/27993821/
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Why Ohio ignored its own $1M bus, rail study
Cincinnati, OH
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Ohio lawmakers so far are refusing to increase one of the smallest state-level public transportation budgets in the U.S. – ignoring the state's own report that calls for more spending on bus and passenger rail systems, The Enquirer has learned…
More info at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/05/23/ohio-ignored-bus-rail-study/27867629/