Relating to transportation; modifying the apportionment of the county+ state aid highway fund to counties, providing for allocation of an +apportionment sum and an excess sum; increasing motor vehicle registration tax depreciation+ schedule for passenger automobiles and eliminating certain tax limits; +creating a transit ways fund and specifying a priority for use, defining transit+ way; increasing the gasoline and special fuels tax rates; reducing the +allocation of revenues from the sales tax on motor vehicles to the highway user tax distribution fund and providing for and increasing in stages the +allocation of tax proceeds to the transit ways fund; designating the counties of +Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, +Washington and Wright as the metropolitan transportation area and regulating +highway spending in the area; imposing additional sales and motor vehicle +sales taxes in the area, providing for collection by the commissioner of revenue; establishing a metropolitan transportation fund for deposit of +amounts collected, authorizing use by the metropolitan council for +acquisition of buses, highway shoulder improvements and other capital expenses +relating to transit and by the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for highway +system improvements in the metropolitan transportation area, authorizing the metropolitan council to provide grants to the commissioner for +implementation of transit capital improvements outside the metropolitan area but +inside the metropolitan transportation area; voter approval requirement and +sunset; appropriating money to the commissioner and authorizing the issuance +of state bonds for certain trunk highway improvements (ra)