Daniel Convissor's Website
Transportation Spending and Economic Growth
These charts depict the results of a ten year $100 billion spending program
for highways and transit.
![[GRAPH: Highway Spending: Debt bottoms out at -9 billion in the first year of the program. Break Even point is roughly nine years into the program. The benefits peak at $7 billion at twelve years after the program begins. (If you can't see this graph, but can download it, follow this link.)]](../graphics/benhwy.gif)
![[GRAPH: Transit Spending: Negative net benefits bottom out at $7.5 billion in the first year of the program. Break Even point is four years into the program and peaks at $15 billion eleven years after the program started. (If you can't see this graph, but can download it, follow this link.)]](../graphics/bentst.gif)
Comparing the economic activity generated by highway investments vs. transit
investments, transit generates twice as much activity and returns a positive
balance three times faster.
This data is based on a report published by the American Public Transit Association and written
by David Ashauer.
The New York Times published my letter to
the editor which used this data
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Last updated: 4 April 1999