Selma council debates ways to raise $3.7M to pave downtown roads, buy buses

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The City of Selma is trying to gather the money for a major downtown street revitalization project.

The project calls for repaving downtown’s seven busiest streets – Alabama Avenue, Selma Avenue, Lauderdale Street, Water Avenue, Franklin Street, Washington Street and Church Street – and upgrading traffic signals and striping at a cost $1,545,625.

The paving is part of a larger project that includes installing streetscaping treatments and upgraded lighting at a cost of another $1.5 million and improving 160 parking spaces that will cost $500,000. The city also hopes to buy energy-efficient buses for $154,000, bringing the total cost of the project to $3.7 million.

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