Building Bike Lanes Creates Twice As Many Jobs As Fixing Roads

From cover of Estimating the Employment Impacts of Pedestrian, Bicycle, and Road Infrastructure Here are some interesting, and unsurprising, data from a study found via the Infrastructurist : building bike lanes creates twice as many jobs per dollar spent as does fixing roads. It makes sense; like I noted in a post about renovation vs new construction, … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Building Bike Lanes Creates Twice As Many Jobs As Fixing Roads

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