Opponents of the California gas tax increase passed by state legislators last year on Tuesday proposed a new measure for the 2020 ballot to provide money for road repairs and eliminate the state’s $77 billion high-speed rail project.
The backers of the 2020 measure are also behind Proposition 6, which will ask voters in November if they want to repeal the state’s recent gas tax hike, which raised the state gas tax 12 cents per gallon. They say the state can use existing money to pay for transportation projects.
If approved by voters, the 2020 initiative proposal would California’s constitution to require that all revenue from current gasoline taxes be spent only for road and bridge projects.
