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Can-do places: How Seattle is accommodating population growth and sustaining economic growth while maintaining quality of life

4 Nov 2016 | Posted by Christiaan Mader | 0 Comments | affordable housing, buses, Can Do Places, local successes, public transportation, Seattle, transit, washington

This story from Seattle, Washington is the seventh in our series of stories illustrating how local communities across the country are casting a vision and often putting their own skin in the game first with local funding while hoping for a strong federal partner to make those plans a reality.

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Utah makes a bipartisan move to increase state and local transportation funding to help meet the demands of high population growth

13 Aug 2015 | Posted by Michael Russell | 0 Comments | bipartisan, Can Do Places, gas tax, local control, local successes, sales tax, state funding, State Funding Series, transportation funding, utah

Earlier this spring Utah became the third state in 2015 to pass a comprehensive transportation funding bill, raising the state’s gas tax and tying it to inflation. Unlike most other states acting this year, Utah raised revenues to invest in a variety of modes and also provided individual counties with the ability to go to the ballot to seek a voter-approved sales tax to fund additional local transportation priorities.

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Indiana Governor signs bill allowing Indianapolis to vote on transit ballot measures

27 Mar 2014 | Posted by Steve Davis | 1 Comment | bus rapid transit, buses, Can Do Places, enabling legislation, Indiana, Indianapolis, local control, local successes, Mayor Ballard

In a huge victory for citizens and the local business community, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) Wednesday signed a long-sought bill giving metro Indianapolis counties the right to vote on funding a much-expanded public transportation network, including bus rapid transit.

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Our Can-Do Places series continues: Denver

21 Jan 2014 | Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | ballot measures, Can Do Places, colorado, Denver, FasTracks

Faced with potential employers suggesting that the lack of transit connections were preventing Denver from realizing their economic development goals, the region’s leaders banded together and made a bold bet on an ambitious and comprehensive plan to expand their transportation network a decade ago.

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