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The $36.6 million grant was made possible through a federal program that seeks to expand transportation options and enhance access to essential services like jobs, education, healthcare, food, and recreation. Funding for the program was allocated in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
It is the largest competitive federal grant ever presented to the city and the second-largest federal appropriation received by the city behind the $42 million it accepted through the American Rescue Plan Act. Repaving, striping, adding a bike lane, and landscaping on West Fairview Avenue from the Interstate 65 underpass to the Mobile Highway intersection and Highway 80.
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