Secretary Pete Buttigieg in Birmingham to announce $14.5 million federal grant to revitalize Alabama’s ‘Black Main Street’

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Secretary Pete Buttigieg in Birmingham to announce $14.5 million federal grant to revitalize Alabama’s ‘Black Main Street’

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came to Birmingham on Wednesday to celebrate a $14.5 million federal grant that will restore two-way traffic to Fourth Avenue North in the city’s historic Black business district. “We’re here because everybody recognizes all the ways in which infrastructure shapes our lives, and we feel it when something goes wrong,” he said. “Sometimes we don’t pay attention to it when everything goes right, but a lo…