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Transportation for America has published a comprehensive overview of financing options for transit projects. Thinking Beyond the Farebox: Creative Approaches to Financing Transit Projects includes funding programs, analyses for the various funding streams that can be used to finance projects, examples of the capitalization plans for transit, BRT, and TOD projects, and a primer on how to do-it-yourself through a transit ballot measure.

"The demand for public transportation service is at its highest point in 50 years. The causes are many: rising gas prices, an increasingly urbanized population, growing numbers of seniors, and the preferences of the “millennial” generation. These factors and more are contributing to soaring ridership on existing transit routes. And more communities of all sizes today are looking for funds to build and operate rail and bus lines than ever before."

"A combination of ideological gridlock in Congress, dwindling federal gas tax revenues, and the elimination of earmarks have made the traditional approaches to building transit much more challenging. Yet despite these obstacles, many communities are finding creative ways to move ahead.  This guidebook is designed to help community leaders get from Point A—the desire to meet the demand for transit—to Point B—raising the money needed to build and operate it."  Transportation for America.

Download the guidebook here...