{"id":379011437,"date":"2017-01-04T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=379011437"},"modified":"2017-01-04T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:57:17","slug":"bicycle-pedestrian-inclusive-infrastructure-projects-create-46-more-jobs-per-dollar-than-road-only-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=379011437","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle- &amp; Pedestrian-Inclusive Infrastructure Projects Create 46% More Jobs Per Dollar Than Road-Only Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Cleantechnica<br \/>\nOwing to the recent election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States of America, and some of the comments that he\u2019s made to date about infrastructure spending and job creation, the folks over at Bike League recently reposted an old article of theirs discussing the fact that infrastructure projects that incorporate bicycle and pedestrian elements create more jobs than road-only projects.<br \/>\nA lot more.<br \/>\nAround 46% more jobs are created per dollar spent, according to a 2011 study from the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4roDwAmpFL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2016\/12\/27\/bicycle-pedestrian-inclusive-infrastructure-projects-create-46-jobs-per-dollar-road-project\/\">Bicycle- &#038; Pedestrian-Inclusive Infrastructure Projects Create 46% More Jobs Per Dollar Than Road-Only Projects<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Bicycle- &#038; Pedestrian-Inclusive Infrastructure Projects Create 46% More Jobs Per Dollar Than Road-Only Projects&#8221; &#8212; CleanTechnica\" src=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2016\/12\/27\/bicycle-pedestrian-inclusive-infrastructure-projects-create-46-jobs-per-dollar-road-project\/embed\/#?secret=6SAqCBjb5V#?secret=4roDwAmpFL\" data-secret=\"4roDwAmpFL\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Cleantechnica Owing to the recent election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States of America, and some of the comments that he\u2019s made to date about infrastructure spending and job creation, the folks over at Bike League recently reposted an old article of theirs discussing the fact that infrastructure projects that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=379011437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicycle- &amp; Pedestrian-Inclusive Infrastructure Projects Create 46% More Jobs Per Dollar Than Road-Only Projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379011437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379011437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379011437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379011437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379011437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379011437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379011437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}