A multiple case study of local & creative financing of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure

Despite recognition that improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure is complimentary to the goals of health and sustainability, it is expected that dwindling federal support for this infrastructure will cause most proposed bicycle and pedestrian projects to go unfunded, and therefore unrealized, in the US. This study examines a number of local mechanisms that cities have used to finance bike/ped infrastructure and some of the implications in doing so. Case studies of crowdfunding, Tax Increment Financing, bonds, donations, and sales tax are discussed in four U.S. cities.