Progressive Railroading lists a few more election results, oriented of course to pro-rail transit. That article in turn links to the Center for Transportation Excellence, a group focused on government “investment” in infrastructure, which claims that the vast majority of transportation measures passed this year (including elections prior to November).
Many of the measures on CTE’s list were road measures (which, if they were funded by sales taxes, the Antiplanner would have opposed). CTE somehow managed to not count the Dane and Kenosha county rail measures that lost. Two of the rail measures that passed were bond measures in Arlington and Fairfax County, Virginia, to support capital improvements (really maintenance) on the DC MetroRail system. Other cities that accept federal funds for rail transit should take note: they will ultimately be responsible for rebuilding the system when it wears out.
