Silicon Valley voters twice passed a transportation bond designating a 0.5 percent sales tax for mass transit projects.

The bill left undone would have authorized $451 million in transportation bonds, which are sold to pay for bridge and road repairs.

It also approved increases in several types of motor vehicle fees and authorized a transportation bond act that would generate $1.45 billion for the authority.

Half this sum was to have provided debt service for a $3 billion transportation bond to repair state roads, highways and bridges.

The budget authorized a $2.9 billion transportation bond act that is set to go before the voters in November.

Funding issues were finally resolved in 2006 with voter-approved statewide transportation bonds.

The location of the transportation bond act proposal on New York City voting machines was slightly confusing.

Money for highways from a $3 billion transportation bond act passed in 1988 runs out in early 1993, and officials here are searching for other revenues.

Jacksonville, Fla., $180 million of transportation bonds.

Five years ago voters rejected a similar request for transportation bonds because they thought the state was overloaded with debt.