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By Bud McLaughlin
September 5, 2024
WASHINGTON – A pair of multimillion-dollar projects in Huntsville and Jackson County are among several in Alabama to share more than $40 million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced today.
The grants are part of $1 billion for 354 local, regional, and tribal communities across the country, including 11 in Alabama, to improve roadway safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries on America’s rural and urban roads.
The city of Huntsville was awarded $21,640,000 for the Holmes Avenue Medical Access Corridor: Safer Streets to Medical Access for Vulnerable Populations.
The project funds a complete streets transformation on the 3.25-mile stretch of Holmes Avenue that runs from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Cummings Research Park to Spragins Street downtown.