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January 9, 2011

Bike Lanes Create More Jobs Per $1 Million spent

Filed under: Advocacy,Bicycle Friendly — Tags: , , , — admin @ 3:34 pm

Read the latest report featured on the American League of Bicyclists’ blog.
The report explains how spending $1 million on bike lane projects create more jobs than other road projects.

The case study done using Baltimore showed that the project to create bike lanes and associated infrastructure is more labor intensive and less costly in materials, thus creating more jobs.

Read the LAB blog full story here:
http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/2011/01/bike-lanes-create-more-jobs-than-other-road-projects/

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