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Page 2... "Advocating for walkability addresses property value, talent attraction, job creation, transportation costs, and subsidies/externalities. Compared to highway investments, each dollar spent on pedestrian facilities created 57% more jobs, and each dollar spent on bicycle facilities created 100% more jobs."

Page 64... "Do not widen roads or build new ones to fight congestion. Induced demand is one lesson that engineers - and politicians - never seem to learn. If you enlarge the street... the number of drivers quickly increases to match the increased capacity, and congestion returns in full force. The data tell us that every new mile of roadway that you build will typically be 40% filled up with new trips immediately and 100% full within four years."

Page 16... "Schools belong in neighborhoods, resist the urge to consolidate them into large facilities. A typical suburban high school now must dedicate more land area to parking than to schooling. In the 1960s, roughly half of all American children walked or biked to school. Currently, that number is below 13%. A more holistic approach to determining school size and location points in a clear direction: small, local and walkable."

Page 39... "In cities with good transit, eliminating the parking minimum results in less competition for on-street spaces, not more. Because when you allow a developer to put up a building without parking, the tenants show up without cars."

Page 125... "Whether it comes to talent attention and retention, job creation, household expenditures, home value, retail performance, or limiting costly externalities, bikelanes mean business. ...public dollars spent on bike infrastructure generate roughly twice the jobs as money spent on driving infrastructure. It would be difficult for a city to find an investment that pays off better than bike lanes."