This Week in Passenger Transport
April 14, 2008
Voters in Kansas City, MO, gave their approval April 8 to a ballot measure that renews a three-eighths-percent sales tax that supports the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority. Preliminary results show the measure receiving 69 percent of the vote in favor and 31 percent opposed.
This measure differs from previous renewals in two specific ways, according to KCATA spokesperson Cindy Baker: it extends the tax for 15 years rather than the usual five, and it explicitly states that the funds will support a bus transit system rather than for a proposed light rail transit system. The measure proposing a tax increase for light rail will appear on the ballot in November.
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