Our friends at the Michigan Public Transit Association report that 15 of the 16 public transit millage requests were approved throughout Michigan. Most of these, like SMART, were by more than 60% support! These include:
- Bay County
- Branch County (70% support)
- Clare County (61% support)
- Genesee County
- Ingham County (two proposals)
- Lapeer (67% support)
- Mason County (two proposals)
- Saginaw County
- Shiawassee Area – Caledonia Twp (61% support)
- St. Joseph County
- Van Buren County (68% support)
- Wexford County
- Wayne, Oakland & Macomb Counties (SMART)
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.