Looking for a new bike path or some park lighting or a few patches of pretty flowers? Well, if you live in one of the 67 communities slated for federal transportation aide you're in luck.
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Ten metro Detroit projects valued at nearly $16 million are part of a $47.3 million in transportation enhancement funding paid for with federal stimulus and other transportation-related dollars announced in a statement by Michigan Lt. Gov. John Cherry on Thursday.
Sixty seven communities in 27 counties will get money. Twenty two projects will be funded by federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money that requires no local match.
The money will pay for enhancements such as bike paths, paved shoulders, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, crosswalks, and preservation work on bridges and rail facilities, the statement said.
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