Last winter I wrote about a report that found construction of bike lanes and paths in Baltimore created more jobs per $1 million than road construction.The author of that report, Heidi Gerrett-Peltier, has expanded her research to 58 projects in 11 cities, including Seattle, and found that her original findings hold true.
"Bicycling infrastructure creates the most jobs for a given level of spending," she writes in Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts.
The report compares job creation for road construction and rehabilitation, building new multi-use trails, widening roads to include bikes lanes ...
Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/6/27/4845675.html
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