The mayor of LA wants your input on his budgeting process! Go take the survey now, and tell him why complete streets are such a great investment. Here’s some reading to inspire you:
- Fort Worth installed 80 new bike staples and restriped lanes for bikes; got a 200% increase in restaurant business
- Melbourne study: space used by bikes generates 3.6 times more expenditure than cars
- Long Beach merchants confirm: bike parking brings visibility, more customers
- Bike tourism contributes $1.5 billion to WI economy
- Toronto study: People who bike/walk spend more money at local businesses
- Bicycling and walking projects create 11-14 jobs per $1 million spent, compared to just 7 jobs created per $1 million spent on highway projects.
- Up to $11.80 in benefits can be gained for every $1 invested in bicycling and walking.
- Car crashes cost $230 billion in 2000
- Car crashes in 2009: nearly 34,000 deaths, 2.217 million injuries
- A bike rack for parking bikes averages $660; parking space for a car is $15,000
- For every dollar spent on bike infrastructure in Portland, $5 is saved in fuel costs, health care, and mortality:
- Highways cost $8 million per mile in MI and $1 billion per mile in Boston, bike lanes are $5,000 to $60,000 per mile
- For the $75 million spent repaving three miles of urban interstate, California could have installed 1,250 miles of bike lanes