Project Connect

<p>Project Connect (listed as Proposition A on the general election ballot) is a transit expansion program by the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (<a href="/facts/CapMetro/7RTvbVGM">CapMetro</a>) in <a href="/facts/Austin,_Texas/xpVP4t98">Austin, Texas</a>, U.S. The program was approved by voters on November 3, 2020, in a local election concurrent with the <a href="/facts/2020_United_States_presidential_election/nkvkv6U8">2020 presidential election</a>.
</p><p>The project is estimated to cost $7.1 billion and will be funded with public funds, both federally and locally through increasing the local property tax rate by 8.75 cents. This is a smaller-scale version of the proposal, originally estimated at $10 billion, but ultimately downsized to $7.1 billion due to <a href="/facts/Economic_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States/ctje6mVM">Covid-induced</a> cost concerns. Plans were again scaled down in 2023 as construction costs had risen since the proposition's passage.
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Project Connect