While road builders and their parasitic allies in the Legislature and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation cite job creation as they push billions of dollars at unneeded highway expansion, the real jobs are in public transportation, according to the Transportation Equity Network:

What would happen if 20 metropolitan areas shifted 50% of their highway funds to transit? They would generate 1,123,674 new transit jobs over a five-year period — for a net gain of 180,150 jobs over five years — without a single dollar of new spending.

There’s a concept — putting dollars where they would both create jobs and would add real transportation value. Don’t know about that 50%, though — we have a lot of bridges and roads to fix (although WisDOT would rather expand highways than maintain them).