Transit Millages Win Overwhelmingly; Only Loss in Eaton County

Posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010, by charder. Filed under: News

15 of 16 public transportation millage requests were approved by large margins (+ 60% and higher) in the following locations:

-Branch County

-St. Joseph County

-Van Buren County

-Ingham County (two proposals)

-Lapeer

-Clare County

-Shiawassee County

-Genesee County

-Wayne, Oakland & Macomb Counties (SMART)

-Wexford County

-Mason County (two proposals)

-Bay County

-Saginaw County

The only transit millage to fail to be approved by voters was in Eaton County where EATRAN was looking for an increase in millage to 0.75 mill to allow service expansion and some fixed-route service. It was defeated by a 55 to 45% margin.