Tag: bike new deal
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Bike League suggests $74B ‘Bike New Deal’ + Why the Feds should dramatically increase bike funding
Building walking, biking and safe streets infrastructure employs more people per dollar than a road-only project. In Seattle, building trails employs 25 percent more people per $1 million invested compared to building roads, according to a 2011 study (PDF) by Heidi Garrett-Peltier for the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The…
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