Meghan Cahill unravels a new study showing that bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects create 46 percent more jobs than road projects built only for cars:
On average, the “road-only” projects evaluated created 7.8 jobs per million, while the “bicycling-only” projects provided 11.4 jobs per million. For example, a roadway-focused project with no bicycle or pedestrian components in Santa Cruz, Calif. generated 4.94 jobs per $1 million spent. In contrast, a bicycle-focused project in Baltimore, Md. produced 14.35 jobs per million.
Ariel Schwartz points to an earlier study in Baltimore that came to a similar conclusion. No wonder the Europeans are getting ever more car-unfriendly.
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