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Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts

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Overall we find that bicycling infrastructure creates the most jobs for a given level of spending: For each $1 million, the cycling projects in this study create a total of 11.4 jobs within the state where the project is located. Pedestrian-only projects create an average of about 10 jobs per $1 million and multi-use trails create nearly as many, at 9.6 jobs per $1 million. Infrastructure that combines road construction with pedestrian and bicycle facilities creates slightly fewer jobs for the same amount of spending, and road-only projects create the least, with a total of 7.8 jobs per $1 million.

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Bike Lanes Create Twice as Many Jobs as Road Repair Work

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The reason for this difference, writes Garrett-Peltier, is that compared to road repair work, bike and pedestrian construction projects are more “labor-intensive,” meaning a greater share of the money goes toward human labor rather than toward materials. All infrastructure projects will create jobs, but when it comes to bang for your construction buck, cities might want to take a long look at bikes.

Makes sense as long as the only objective is in creating jobs.

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Zillow is hiring

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Love dabbling in real estate data? Zillow, the online real estate website is looking for a Data and Analytics Specialist. Although I’m quite well versed in ArcGIS, unfortunately my knowledge of SQL is pretty limited which is one of the important criteria for the position. As Steven Levitt says, if you get the job after reading about it on here, don’t forget to double the value of my home in their database :)