The federal government will provide $105 million under a program bolstered by the infrastructure law to help fill in Interstate 375 and turn it into a boulevard.
For years, Detroit leaders worked on a plan to fill in the highway trench, turning Interstate 375 into a mile-long boulevard. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would give Michigan a helping hand in the form of a $105 million grant.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is set to join Duggan and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to announce the grant Thursday morning in Detroit. The $270 million project will fill the trench that carries the highway, replacing it with a narrower boulevard at the same level as the surrounding streets. The plans call for a cycle track and new bridges across sections of highway that will remain.Federal authorities signed off on the environmental review for the project in March, concluding that it would not have a significant effect.
Ben Crowther, who coordinates the Freeway Fighters Network, said I-375 in Detroit is one of three major highways-to-boulevards projects that are close to being shovel-ready. The other two are an elevated section of Interstate 81 in Syracuse, N.Y., and the McGrath Highway in Sommerville, Mass.
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