In defeat, RTA backers look west for strategies #DetroitNews

Bill Shea - Backers of the $3 billion metro Detroit transit tax rejected by voters last week say they will look to Seattle, Los Angeles and other western cities for clues to selling tax increases. They specifically will study two other regions that approved massive transit taxes that dwarf the tax plan considered here. In metro Seattle, voters in three counties passed a $54 billion proposal by the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority to finance bus rapid transit, commuter train, and bus line

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