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Advocates ask committee to allow regional ballot measures for local transportation funding
Summary
Advocates urged the Joint Committee on Revenue to let municipalities place regional ballot questions to raise money for local and regional transportation projects under Senate 2009.
Georgia Barlow of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Pete Wilson of Transportation for Massachusetts testified in favor of Senate 2009, a bill to allow regional ballot initiatives that would let municipalities place local ballot questions to raise revenue for transportation projects.
Barlow told the Joint Committee on Revenue that the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, which serves 101 municipalities in Greater Boston, supports legislation enabling…
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