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New Study: 'HealthLine' Generating High-Paying Jobs in Growth Sectors
The data are in: The number of jobs has nearly doubled along one of Cleveland’s main thoroughfares—Euclid Avenue—since the 2008 completion of Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s BRT HealthLine, often cited as a “gold standard” for BRT in the U.S.
What’s more, as of 2014, most of the new jobs—56 percent—paid $40,000 or more a year compared to roughly one-third paying that salary level in 2002, according to the study from the Center for Population Dynamics at Cleveland State University (CSU).
A key theme of the report is that forward-thinking investments in public transit can spark and support “new economy” jobs in urban areas, such as those in health care and education (both sectors provide employment along the HealthLine Euclid Avenue corridor), rather than traditional manufacturing jobs, which tend to be clustered in suburbs.
RTA General Manager Joe Calabrese said the CSU report confirms trends in his city and elsewhere. “It’s consistent with major capital improvement projects in transit around the country,” he said. “This was the hope and the goal, and it’s great to see it’s the reality as well.”
The report, which reviews population, migration and economic patterns in the Greater Cleveland area, also recounts previous studies that confirm the $200 million BRT’s positive economic impact, including more than $6 billion in additional investments along the corridor, an increase in ridership for the line and growth in the downtown area’s residential population.
HealthLine, one of the first BRT lines in the country, has been joined by the Cleveland State Line, extending the region’s “BRT backbone” from the Westlake neighborhood to East Cleveland.
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RTA General Manager Joe Calabrese with a HealthLine bus.
Photo credit: David Kidd/Governing |
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