A few weeks ago, we began asking you to vote for our biggest story of the year.

We gave you 10 nominations and asked you in an I-Poll to select the No. 1 story. Well, the votes are in, and now we're going to count down the 10 stories in reverse order of the votes they received.

Coming in at No. 10: Voters overwhelmingly reject the Greenlight Pinellas mass transit plan.

The Grenlight Pinellas referendum would have created a 1-cent sales tax to help pay for a 24-mile light rail line from downtown Clearwater to downtown St. Petersburg and a 65 percent expansion of the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus service. A transit tax paid by property owners would have been eliminated.

Greenlight supporters raised about $1 million for their campaign and had the backing of numerous local politicians and high-profile business leaders. All three major professional sports teams in the region contributed to the campaign.

Opposition was led by a grassroots political committee called No Tax for Tracks whose leader, insurance agency owner Barb Haselden, argued that the rail line made little sense and would saddle future generations with debt.

Voters got their chance to speak on Nov. 4, and a staggering 62 percent of them said "no."

The referendum won only two precincts north of 54th Avenue N in St. Petersburg and was crushed in generally more affluent north Pinellas County.

This was a Pinellas County story, but it had broader impact. Hillsborough County officials hoped the measure would pass and create momentum for a mass transit measure they hope to present voters with in 2016.

The defeat of Greenlight Pinellas dealt a serious blow to plans for a Tampa Bay regional transportation system.