Fwd: Webinar tomorrow on economic benefits of biking

[Linda Tracy]

FYI.

Best, Linda

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From: "Melinda Barnes" <mel...@bikewalkmontana.org>

Date: February 20, 2013 6:57:21 AM MST

To: <bike-wal...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: Webinar tomorrow on economic benefits of biking

The Alliance for Biking and Walking is hosting a webinar Thursday at 2 PM Eastern, 1 PM Central that might be of interest to folks. Please feel free to pass this on to others who may think improving streets for bicyclists and pedestrians might hurt business.

 

http://www.ssti.us/Events/the-positive-link-between-bike-and-pedestrian-street-improvements-and-economic-activity-in-nyc/

 

Bike and pedestrian street improvements and economic activity in NYC

 

Event Date: Thursday, February 21, 1:00 PM Central (2:00 PM Eastern)

 

A new study concludes that recent New York City street improvements, including bicycle lanes and pedestrian plazas constructed to replace parking spaces and lanes of traffic, did not impede economic growth.

Bennett Midland LLC, a public-sector consulting firm, developed and executed an innovative methodology using three data sources to quantify economic effects at a very granular level. Using a series of comparison areas to isolate the effects of the Department of Transportation’s improvements from other contemporaneous changes in the city, the study found evidence that the improvement projects may have contributed positively to economic activity in the neighborhoods around the improvement sites. Join Eric S. Lee and Ben Galeota-Sprung, president and principal respectively, of Bennett Midland LLC, to hear how these studies might be replicated in other communities.

 

 

Melinda Barnes

Executive Director

Bike Walk Montana

PO Box 584

Helena, MT 59624

406-438-5368

mel...@bikewalkmontana.org

 

Become a member of Bike Walk Montana

http://www.bikewalkmontana.org/get-involved/membership/

 

 

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