Fix it First as Economic Development

Adopt a “Fix It First” policy in your community, ordering city and county departments to limit new projects for roads, bridges and sewers to no more than 10% of the total projects approved, with the rest of the money going to fixing and maintaining what already exists.

A report released by the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) entitled Setting the Record Straight: Transit, Fixing Roads and Bridges Offer Greatest Jobs Gains found that investments in road and bridge repair create 9 percent more jobs per dollar than building new roads or bridges.  In addition, for public transportation, job creation jumps to 19 percent more than the figure for new road and bridge projects.

The full report is available online at www.transact.org

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