New Report: Biking, Trail Projects Create More Jobs Than Highway Work

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Yet many people have long assumed that walking and biking are strictly a "big city" phenomenon-and that rural Americans can't benefit substantially from investment in bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure. But an important new analysis tells a much ...

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