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Only 32% of Virginians believe the Silver Line is important to the state compared to 67% of Northern Virginians, according to a transportation priority survey.

Interesting numbers. NoVA makes up about a third of the population of VA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Virginia). If only 67% of NoVans want the Silver line, that means that there are still a good that leaves 1/9th of VAns not living on NoVa interested in the Silver Line (or 1/6th of non-NoVa VAns). With about 8 million VAns, that means that about 900k VAns outside NoVA want the Silver Line. That's impressive.

Just ask yourself how much you care about some infrastructure project in Hampton Roads.

The survey also showed that most of Virginia does not favor tax hikes.

Nobody likes unspecified tax hikes. Tax hikes become a lot more palatable when coupled to actual choices. "Would you like to close this school or pay more taxes?" gets a lot more positive response than "Would you like to pay more taxes?"

by Jasper on May 11, 2012 10:09 am • link • report

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