New York City
Bronx councilwoman Kristy Marmorato was running for reelection
Kristy Marmorato fought to create more parking. In fact, she wanted developers to build parking even if it increases housing costs:
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/08/07/bronx-metro-north-rezoning-parking-mandates
She was defeated last night by Shirley Aldebol.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge’s entire City Council was up for reelection.
John Hanratty was running for office
https://www.hanrattyforcambridge.com/
John was a leading member of a group that called itself “Cambridge Streets For All” which unsuccessfully sued Cambridge to stop bike lane projects.
John Hanratty was defeated last night.
In fact, 7 out of the 9 Cambridge City Council members received endorsements from Cambridge Bike Safety, the volunteer organization that’s working to improve bike infrastructure 🎉
Boston, Massachusetts
Mayor Michelle Wu, who has been taking bold positions to expand the city’s bike network and public transit was reelected 🥳
Catherine Vitale and Shawn Nelson were both running for Boston city council. They pledged to defend cars and “eliminate bike lanes” during their campaigns
*“They’re trying to make it undesirable to drive cars!!” warned Vitale at a meeting.
Both Catherine Vitale and Shawn Nelson were defeated 👏
Virginia
Winsome Earle-Sears was running for governor.
She wanted to get rid of the car tax:
This was the dumbest tax plan EVER.
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Virginia residents who own a car get millions in cuts 💰
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Virginia residents who are car-free get nothing ❌
She was defeated last night 👏
North Carolina
The referendum to raise Charlotte sales tax by 1% to pay for public transit improvements won 52.13% of the vote 🎉
The tax increase is expected to raise more than $19.4 billion over 30 years.
It will help significant increase the number of buses.
It will also pay for the completion of the Red Line
Thank you to those who voted 🙏🙏🙏
Surely you meant $19.4 million, not billion?
Probably not. The amounts were talking, and the time frames are pretty big.
A quick search shows statewide retail sales in Q4 2023 was $60.9B. So extrapolating that out, that’s $243.6B for the state in a year. If we assume Charlotte is about 1/5 of the State’s retail footprint, which seems reasonable for the largest city, with over double the population of the 2nd largest… we get $48.7B. Then 1% of those sales comes to $487M. Multiply that by 40 years and you get… $19.4 Billion. And that’s just using numbers I found with a quick Google search and basic math.
Right, OP edited the post to now include “over 30 years” which makes more sense. I originally thought it was per year, in which case the amount seemed off.