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Posts Tagged ‘Bike Paths’

ESTIMATING THE EMPLOYMENT IMPACTS OF PEDESTRIAN, BICYCLE, AND ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE

Monday, January 17th, 2011

POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
We are particularly interested in examining the differences in employment resulting from different project types: those that focus on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and those that do not. Using an input-output model, we evaluate project-specific data provided by the City of Baltimore. We find that pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure projects create 11-14 jobs per $1 million of spending while road infrastructure projects create approximately 7 jobs per $1 million of expenditures.

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Posted in Biking, Employment, Infra Views, Jobs, Land Use, Local, Public Parks & Recreation, Roads, Smart Growth, Urban Planning

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Bicycle Highways: Should cities build specialized roadways for cyclists?

Monday, July 12th, 2010

SLATE MAGAZINE
While the school of so-called “vehicular cycling” argues that cycles should be treated as cars and share the roads, this philosophy seems to be the result of (primarily American) cyclists adapting by necessity to their harsh surroundings rather than the sound basis of a widespread transportation shift. In the world’s top cycling cities, one finds not muscular riders harried and buffeted by passing cars, but all manner of people—young, old, carrying groceries, carrying kids—riding on networks that have been designed for them.

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Posted in Biking, Competitiveness, Congestion, Equity, Funding, Green, Infra Views, National, Policy, Public Parks & Recreation, Sustainability, Transit

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