Public transit investment = MORE jobs than highway construction


	Public transit investment = MORE jobs than highway construction

egsnyder

1-23-2009 5:01 AM

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environment, economy, stimulus

egsnyder says:

Hope that President Obama and Prime Minister Harper are fully aware of this.

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href="http://www.transact.org/library/decoder/jobs_decoder.pdf">analysis</A> of 
a 2004 United States Department of Transportation jobs creation model. And, 
according to the <A 
href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2009/01/_democratic_lea.html">California 
Transit Association</A>, for every $1 billion invested in new public transit 
projects, some 31,400 jobs are created and $3 billion is pumped into the local 
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