Pursuits
Mega Deals Lead Ballot Measures as Infrastructure Makes Comeback
- Los Angeles proposes $120 billion in transportation projects
- Projects getting a boost after passage of highway bill
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Voters will have more than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to consider at the polls in November; they’ll be weighing whether to approve spending for over $200 billion for roads, transit systems, schools and other projects.
For the first time since 2008, voters will see more than half a dozen so-called mega infrastructure projects on ballot measures, including $120 billion in Los Angeles; $53.8 billion in Seattle; $4.7 billion in southeastern Michigan and $2.5 billion in Atlanta. In California, voters will decide on funding housing for the homeless, $9 billion of school-facility bonds and to further finance San Francisco’s transit system. Colorado ballot measures contain $4 billion of bonds for schools in various districts.