{"id":1022,"date":"2018-05-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/09\/anatomy-of-a-transportation-proposal-21-defeat-in-a-fast-growing-city\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:00:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-transportation-proposal-21-defeat-in-a-fast-growing-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/anatomy-of-a-transportation-proposal-21-defeat-in-a-fast-growing-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Transportation Proposal. 2:1 Defeat in a Fast Growing City."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The transportation proposal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ambitious $5.4 billion transit expansion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The vote:<\/strong>\u00a036% : 64%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there extenuating circumstances?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City &amp; County government is consolidated<\/li>\n<li>Most population lives outside the city proper<\/li>\n<li>The proposal was promoted by the mayor who resigned in March<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Transportation Proposal supporters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the\u00a0mayor<\/li>\n<li>chamber of commerce<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/29\/nashville-predators-transit-supporters-referendum-tn-tv-ad\/471151002\/\" style=\"color:rgb(210,35,42);font-family:'Droid Serif', serif;\">Nashville Predators<\/a>\u00a0hockey team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do opponetns say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No public input after the plan was formed<\/li>\n<li>transportation policy should be incremental not sweeping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/gov-Nashville-transit-defeat-hard-lessons-advocates.html?utm_term=Nashville%27s%20Epic%20Transit%20Defeat%20Offers%20Hard%20Lessons%20for%20Advocates&amp;utm_campaign=States%20With%20the%20Top%20GDP%20Growth&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0Nashville&#8217;s Epic Transit Defeat Offers Hard Lessons for Advocates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/nashville\/news\/2018\/03\/14\/nashville-jumps-up-list-of-countrys-fastest.html\">Nashville Business Journal |\u00a0Nashville jumps up list of country&#8217;s fastest-growing cities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The transportation proposal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ambitious $5.4 billion transit expansion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The vote:<\/strong>\u00a036% : 64%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there extenuating circumstances?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City &amp; County government is consolidated<\/li>\n<li>Most population lives outside the city proper<\/li>\n<li>The proposal was promoted by the mayor who resigned in March<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Transportation Proposal supporters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the\u00a0mayor<\/li>\n<li>chamber of commerce<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/29\/nashville-predators-transit-supporters-referendum-tn-tv-ad\/471151002\/\" style=\"color:rgb(210,35,42);font-family:'Droid Serif', serif;\">Nashville Predators<\/a>\u00a0hockey team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do opponetns say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No public input after the plan was formed<\/li>\n<li>transportation policy should be incremental not\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,30,50,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local","category-local-government","category-public-transit","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}