Dive Brief:

• Transportation questions, most of them related to raising money for infrastructure, passed in 91% of the places where they were on the ballot last week, an analysis says.
• The American Road and Transportation Builders Association was encouraged by the response voters had to items that will affect them.
• Taken together, the various questions have a value of $240 million, and the average margin of approval was 67%.

Dive Insight:

The results seem to tell us that people are willing to commit tax revenues or even tax themselves more if they have a real (i.e., local) idea of what their money is going to accomplish. The farther away the promised benefits of spending, the less voters buy the argument, it appears.