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Kentucky
Capital: Frankfort
Population: 4,065,556
Major Metropolitan Areas: Lexington, Louisville
Federal Transportation Spending: $616,184,000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2002)

 
General Ballot Measure Information

State Ballot Process
Kentucky offers the popular referendum option only. Citizens cannot place constitutional amendments or initiatives on the ballot. The referendum procedure has been available to citizens since 1910.

State Election Site: http://www.kyelect.com/

County & City Information
Contact your county clerk's office for more information: http://www.kysos.com/Elecfil/Genelectionfiles/countyclerk.asp

Ballot measure information
http://www.iandrinstitute.org/Kentucky.htm

Additional ballot measure information
http://www.ballot.org/states/ky.html

 
Specific Ballot Measure Information
 
Initiative Year Community/Region
for initiative
Type Of Measure Ballot Date Result
2004 Lexington Property Tax 11/2/2004
Description
LexTran's new general manager, Terry Garcia Cruz, wants to put a 5 mill property or occupational tax on the November ballot, which would be the agencie's first dedicated funding source, and would allow for necessary service expansions.

 
Outreach/Contact Information
 
Advocacy Groups
Kentucky Public Transit Association (no website)
Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation http://communicas.com/cart.htm
Partners for Public Transportation (no website)
Kentuckians for Better Transportation http://www.kbtnet.org/
BG Coalition For Transit Now (no website)
Rail Passenger Group
Kentucky-Indiana Rail Advocates http://www.geocities.com/kentuckyrailtaskforce/mission
State DOT
http://www.kytc.state.ky.us/
Transit Agencies & MPOs
Ft. Wright TANK http://www.tankbus.org/tank_frame.html
Lexington LEXTRAN http://www.lextran.com/
Louisville TARC http://www.ridetarc.org/
 
Media Information
 
Newspaper(s)
Lexington Herald-Leader http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/
Louisville Courier-Journal http://www.courier-journal.com/
Bowling Green Daily News http://www.bgdailynews.com/
Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/frontpage.htm
Paducah Sun http://www.paducahsun.com/
Radio Television
WFPL NPR - Louisville http://www.wfpl.org/
WHAS News/Talk - Louisville http://www.whas.com/main.html
WKJK News/Talk - Louisville http://www.talkradio1080.com/main.html
WAVE NBC - Louisville http://www.wave3.com/
WHAS ABC - Louisville http://www.whas11.com/
WLKY CBS - Louisville http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/
 
Other Resources
 

STPP State Page: http://www.transact.org/states/default.asp?state=kentucky

APTA State Page (Info. on transit agencies): http://www.apta.com/links/state_local/ky.cfm