Ballots & Budgets: A Review of 2024 Transportation Referenda with Yonah Freemark
Episode notes
AMPO Transportation Planning Manager, Ellen Zavisca, talks with Yonah Freemark from the Urban Institute to get his take on why some transportation ballot measures succeeded and other failed.
Learn more about Yonah here: https://www.urban.org/author/yonah-freemark
Check out his Bluesky threads on 2024 ballot measures:
https://bsky.app/profile/yfreemark.bsky.social/post/3laeg52565z2n
https://bsky.app/profile/yfreemark.bsky.social/post/3laeg52565z2n
https://bsky.app/profile/yfreemark.bsky.social/post/3laer73onwc2r
Streetsblog also has a summary of local transportation initiatives: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/11/at-least-local-transit-initiatives-won-big-in-tuesdays-election
Yonah mentions a couple groups studying high infrastructure costs, including the Transit Costs Project (https://transitcosts.com/ ) and Eno's Project Delivery Resources Hub (https://projectdelivery.enotrans.org/ ).