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Transit: Putting Michigan Back to Work
In recent years Michigan’s unemployment rate has ranked among the nation’s worst. Building public transit systems in Michigan will create thousands of good jobs:
• For the laborers who do the really hard work,
• For the construction contractors and subcontractors, architects, engineers, heavy equipment operators and other professionals who design and build the system and the stations that serve as stops along the routes.
And when construction of the system ends, more jobs are produced when developers invest billions of dollars opening retail shops, grocery stores, apartment buildings, restaurants, cafes and all the other services transit riders demand.
Transit Putting People to Work - in OTHER States
• It’s happening in other states (click here for more details about the job and economic development benefits of transit in other states):
• Only 22 miles of light rail in Dallas, Texas resulted in 30,000 new jobs.
• Development around the Hiawatha line in Minneapolis, Minnesota produced 5,000 new jobs.
• In Portland, Oregon thousands of new jobs were created in high tech industries that sprung up along and near the Westside Max line.
• Every $100 million invested in public transit creates and supports roughly 4,000 jobs, says the American Public Transit Association.